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The Origins of Digital Computers Selected Papers

My interest in the history of digital computers became an active one when I had the fortune to come across the almost entirely forgotten work of PERCY LUDGATE, who designed a mechanical program-controlled computer in Ireland in the early I ':ICC's. I undertook an investigation of his life...

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Other Authors: Randell, B. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1973, 1973
Edition:1st ed. 1973
Subjects:
Computer Science
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 7.1. Binary Calculation. E. W. Phillips (1936)
  • 7.2. Computing Machine for the Solution of Large Systems of Linear Algebraic Equations. J. V. Atanasoff (1940)
  • 7.3. The Bletchley Machines. D. Michie (1972)
  • 7.4. The Use of High Speed Vacuum Tube Devices for Calculating. J. W. Mauchly (1942)
  • 7.5. The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. (ENIAC). H. H. Goldstine and A. Goldstine (1946)
  • VIII Stored Program Electronic Computers
  • 8.1. First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC. J. von Neumann (1945)
  • 8.2. Preparation of Problems for EDVAC-type Machines. J. W. Mauchly (1947)
  • 8.3. Preliminary Discussion of the Logical Design of an Electronic Computing Instrument. A. W. Burks et al. (1946)
  • 8.4. Electronic Digital Computers. F. C. Williams and T. Kilburn (1948)
  • 8.5. The EDSAC. M. V. Wilkes and W. Renwick (1949)
  • 8.6. The EDSAC Demonstration. B. H. Worsley (1949)
  • Index to Bibliography
  • I Introduction
  • II Analytical Engines
  • 2.1. On the Mathematical Powers of the Calculating Engine. C. Babbage (1837)
  • 2.2. Report of the Committee 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 (1879)
  • 2.3. Babbage’s Analytical Engine. H. P. Babbage (1910)
  • 2.4. On a Proposed Analytical Machine. P. E. Ludgate (1909)
  • 2.5. Essays on Automatics — Its Definition — Theoretical Extent of its Applications. L. Torres y Quevedo (1914)
  • 2.6. Electromechanical Calculating Machine. L. Torres y Quevedo (1920)
  • 2.7. Scheme of Assembly of a Machine Suitable for the Calculations of Celestial Mechanics. L. Couffignal (1938)
  • III Tabulating Machines
  • 3.1. An Electric Tabulating System. H. Hollerith (1889)
  • 3.2. Calculating Machines: Their Principles and Evolution. L. Couffignal (1933)
  • 3.3. The Automatic Calculator IPM. H.-J. Dreyer and A. Walther (1946)
  • IV Zuse and Schreyer
  • 4.1. Method for Automatic Execution of Calculations with the aid of Computers. K. Zuse (1936)
  • 4.2. Technical Computing Machines. H. Schreyer (1939)
  • 4.3. The Outline of a Computer Development from Mechanics to Electronics. K. Zuse (1962)
  • V Aiken and IBM
  • 5.1. Proposed Automatic Calculating Machine. H. H. Aiken (1937)
  • 5.2. The Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator. H. H. Aiken and G. M. Hopper (1946)
  • 5.3. Electrons and Computation. W. J. Eckert (1948)
  • 5.4. The IBM Card-Programmed Electronic Calculator. J. W. Sheldon and L. Tatum (1951)
  • VI Bell Telephone Laboratories
  • 6.1. Computer. G. R. Stibitz (1940)
  • 6.2. The Relay Interpolator. O. Cesareo (1946)
  • 6.3. The Ballistic Computer. J. Juley (1947)
  • 6.4. A Bell Telephone Laboratories’ Computing Machine.F. L. Alt (1948)
  • VII The Advent of Electronic Computers

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