Calculating Machines Recent & Prospective Developments.

Name: Calculating Machines Recent & Prospective Developments.
Author: Hartree, D. R.

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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.

Dealer Notes

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.

Author Hartree, D. R.

Date 1947

Binding Original printed wrappers

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Condition See description

Pages 40

Price: £250.00

Offered by Meridian Rare Books

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