The Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator I, II, and III
New York: American Institute of Electrical Engineers 1946. First Edition. 303-860 pages plus issue title pages. Black buckram ex-corporate library copy of the scientific journal Electrical Engineering covering July to December, 1946. July front cover bound in, occasional library stamps and checkout sheet front flyleaf. The three part article offered here on pages 384-91, 449-54, 522-28 is bright and clean. Several issue title/contents pages have remnants of stickers at top with some residual glue (sticking to opposite page, several repairs). Articles in fine condition. Very Good. Cloth. [18432]
Contains "a three part article on the Mark I, based largely on Aiken and Hopper's Manual of Operation for the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (see [Origins of Cyberspace] No 411). Although Hopper's name appears second, she was the primary author. The article begins with a brief history of computing instruments." The Automatic Sequence Controlled calculator was also known as the Mark I. "The electromechanical Harvard Mark I was the first programmable calculating machine to actually produce mathematical tables, fulfilling the dream of Charles Babbage originally set out in print in 1822..." Grace Hopper was one of a few prominent women working in computers at the time - she was chief programmer for the Mark I. (Origins of Cyberspace 411 & 412)
Note: Origins of Cyberspace incorrectly records the page numbers for the second part as 445-54.
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