First Edition. Hardcover. "The first comprehensive exposition of electronic digital computing." [OOC 652] "These lectures were intended for a well-informed scientific audience outside the tiny group of professionals then involved with electronic computing. They represented the first comprehensive exposition of electronic digital computing, and this book was one of the first two treatises on the subject. The other book, Edmund Berkeley s Giant Brains or Machines That Think was written for a more popular audience and achieved greater sales. . . . Chapter 8, entitled Projects and prospects, contains the first generally available comprehensive account of the stored-program machines then in development, including EDVAC, ACE, and EDSAC." [OOC 652]. Minimal shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows minor shelf/edge wear, one small closed tear, else bright and clean. Orange cloth boards, black ink lettering. 8vo. 138pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Seller Inventory # 11065

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Title: Calculating Instruments and Machines

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, Urbana

Publication Date: 1949

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine DJ

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: First Edition.

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