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Cambridge, MA; London, England and Los Angeles; San Francisco: MIT Press and Tomash Publishers, 1992. First English Language Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. First English Language Edition. [8], [ix]-xvii, [1 blank], 367 pp plus 25 pages of reproduced advertisements for calculating machines. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth. Number 16 in the Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series for the History of Computing. Spine slanted,minor remnants from sticker, otherwise a bright clean copy. Cloth. The first American and first English language edition. Originally published in German as "Die Rechenmaschinen und ihre Entwicklungsgeschichte" in 1925, and extremely difficult for the translators to obtain, this was one of the first works in the Charles Babbage Institute reprint series to be suggested, but one of the last issued. The editors were fortunate to be able to access the collection of instruments at the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian while undertaking an already difficult technical…
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The Calculating Machines (Die Rechenmaschinen): Their History and Development (Charles Babbage Institute Reprint) Hardcover - 1992
by Martin, Ernst
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- Title The Calculating Machines (Die Rechenmaschinen): Their History and Development (Charles Babbage Institute Reprint)
- Author Martin, Ernst
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- Publisher The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, London, England, and LA/ San Francisco
- Date 1992-03
- ISBN 9780262132787
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