Machine Methods Accounting by Ibm (3 results)

First edition. First edition. With many diagrams and illustrations, in 23 individually paginated sections. 4to. First Edition of this manual issued in separate parts by IBM during the period just before the invention of the electronic computer, when the company dominated the market for punch-card tabulators and other calculating and data-processing machines. The most sophisticated of IBM's electric punched card tabulators could be programmed by plug boards, and represented an intermediate step between traditional tabulating machines and the programmable computers that were developed during World War II. "Primarily, this book was written to provide a single volume from which employees of International Business Machines Corporation may thoroughly familiarize themselves with the complete list of bookkeeping and accounting machines manufactured by their company, and with the operation of such machines of furnishing figure-facts automatically" (p. [6]). The manual is copiously illustrated with photographs and drawings of IBM's accounting machines, punch cards and related equipment. Black cloth pressure binder. Light rubbing to extremities. Very good. Provenance: IBM With many diagrams and illustrations, in 23 individually paginated sections. 4to.

IBM. Machine methods of accounting: A manual of the basic principles of operation and use of international electric bookkeeping and accounting machines. 23 separately paginated parts plus [8]pp. preliminaries. Text illustrations. New York: International Business Machines Inc., [1936]. 282 x 217 mm. In original cloth pressure binder, "Machine Methods of Accounting" stamped on the front cover over the IBM logo, "The Chase National Bank of the City of New York / Foreign Exchange Department" very faintly stamped at the foot of the front cover. Light wear, a few edges frayed. Very good. First Edition of this manual issued in 23 separate parts by IBM during the period just before the invention of the electronic computer, when the company dominated the market for punch-card tabulators and other calculating and data-processing machines. "Primarily, this book was written to provide a single volume from which employees of International Business Machines Corporation may thoroughly familiarize themselves with the complete list of bookkeeping and accounting machines manufactured by their Company, and with the operation of such machines of furnishing figure-facts automatically" (p. [6]). The manual is copiously illustrated with photographs and drawings of IBM's accounting machines, punch cards and related equipment, together with images of the company's corporate headquarters and its president, Thomas J. Watson. .

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition of IBM's manual published while the company dominated the punch-card tabulator, calculating and data-processing machine market, while standing just on the cusp of the dawn of the electronic computer. In 23 separately paginated sections with black and white diagrams and illustrations of IBM's patented accounting machines, with the first section on IBM's history. Bound in publisher's black cloth pressure binder stamped in gilt. Near Fine with light wear and trivial soiling to covers. A lovely copy.