First edition. Small 8vo. pp. 40; 2 photo. illusts. of ENIAC; very good in original printed wrappers, a little marked, ownership inscription of D. W. Sciama to front wrapper. Hartree's overview of the subject includes his work at the University of Pennsylvania on ENIAC, the first programmable digital computer. This copy belonged to Dennis W. Sciama (1926-99), author of Modern Cosmology (1971), who studied at Cambridge and Oxford, where his students included Stephen Hawking, Martin Rees, and John Barrow.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Calculating Machines Recent & Prospective Developments.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press, 1947. �250, Cambridge

Publication Date

1947

Language

English

Binding

Soft cover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Very Good

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