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Table of contents (36 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages I-XVI

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Introduction
1. Introduction
  
  David Gries
  
  Pages 1-7
Analytical Engines
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 9-18
  
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2. On the Mathematical Powers of the Calculating Engine
  
  Charles Babbage
  
  Pages 19-54
3. Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor Cayley, Dr. Farr, 2.2. Mr. J. W. L. Glaisher, Dr. Pole, Professor Fuller, Professor A. B. W. Kennedy, Professor Clifford, and Mr. C. W. Merrifield, appointed to consider the advisability and to estimate the expense of constructing Mr. Babbage’s Analytical Machine, and of printing Tables by its means.
  
  C. W. Merrifield
  
  Pages 55-65
4. Babbage’s Analytical Engine
  
  H. P. Babbage
  
  Pages 67-70
5. On a Proposed Analytical Machine
  
  Percy E. Ludgate
  
  Pages 73-87
6. Essays on Automatics
  
  Leonardo Torres y Quevedo
  
  Pages 89-107
7. Electromechanical Calculating Machine
  
  Leonardo Torres y Quevedo
  
  Pages 109-120
8. Scheme of Assembly of a Machine Suitable for the Calculations of Celestial Mechanics
  
  L. Couffignal
  
  Pages 121-125
Tabulating Machines
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 127-131
  
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2. An Electric Tabulating System
  
  H. Hollerith
  
  Pages 133-143
3. Calculating Machines: Their Principles and Evolution
  
  L. Couffignal
  
  Pages 145-154
4. The Automatic Calculator IPM
  
  H.-J. Dreyer, A. Walther
  
  Pages 155-157
Zuse and Schreyer
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 159-161
  
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2. Method for Automatic Execution of Calculations with the Aid of Computers
  
  Konrad Zuse
  
  Pages 163-170
3. Technical Computing Machines
  
  Helmut Schreyer
  
  Pages 171-173
4. The Outline of a Computer Development from Mechanics to Electronics
  
  Konrad Zuse
  
  Pages 175-190
Aiken and IBM
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 191-194
  
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2. Proposed automatic calculating machine
  
  Howard Aiken
  
  Pages 195-201

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Computing Laboratory, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, England

Brian Randell

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Book Title: The Origins of Digital Computers
Book Subtitle: Selected Papers
Editors: Brian Randell
Series Title: Monographs in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61812-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1982
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-11319-5Published: 01 July 1982
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-61814-7Published: 01 November 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-61812-3Published: 21 December 2013
Series ISSN: 0172-603X
Series E-ISSN: 2512-5486
Edition Number: 3
Number of Pages: XVI, 582
Topics: Logic Design

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Table of contents (36 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Analytical Engines

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Tabulating Machines

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Zuse and Schreyer

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Aiken and IBM

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Computing Laboratory, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, England

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