London: 1914. Muldivo Calculating Machine Company. The Muldivo calculating machine. Made in France. London, n.d. [ca. 1914]. Original printed wrappers. 12pp. Illustrated. 248 x 187 mm. VG. Advertising brochure published by the British branch of the Muldivo company. The brochure includes views of Muldivo’s French factories. Origins of Cyberspace 340..... More
1914. Muldivo Calculating Machine Company. A masterpiece of French mechanism. N.p., n.d. [ca. 1914]. Unbound circular. Single sheet. 272 x 215 mm. Tears in lower margin not affecting text readability. Good. Lists three models of the Muldivo calculator.Origins of Cyberspace 341. More
Kempten: A. Ott, 1931. Ott, A. Der harmonische Analysator Mader-Ott. Kempten: A. Ott, [1931]. Original printed self-wrappers. [2], 17 [1]pp. Text illustrations. 211 x 147 mm. VG. Provenance: Theodore von Kármán. Inscription in unidentified hand on back wrapper. A description of the harmonic analyzer manufactured by the German firm of..... More
Emeryville, CA: 1920. Marchant Calculating Machine Company. Here is the calculator you have been waiting for. Emeryville, Calif.: Marchant Calculating Machine Company, n.d. [ca. 1920]. Unbound single sheet, folded. VG. [2]pp. Text illustrations. 307 x 204 mm. A circular advertising the Pony Marchant Calculator, a manually operated desktop machine for..... More
1930. Gerschgorin, S. Ein Apparat zur mechanischen Ausführung der konformen Abbildung = 1/2 (z + r2/z). Offprint from Zeitschrift für Flugtechnik und Motorluftschiffart 15 (1930). Original pink printed wrappers. Very good. 7 [1]pp. Text illustrations. 210 x 150 mm. Provenance: Theodore von Kármán, with his characteristic docketing . Describes an..... More
New York: 1913. [Tabulating Machine Company – C-T-R – IBM] The Tabulating Machine Company. A business compass: Facts made immediately available for determining business policy. New York, ©1913. Original gray printed wrappers. Very good. 48pp. Illustrated. 228 x 152 mm. Herman Hollerith, a clerk at the U S Census Bureau..... More
London: 1914. First edition. [Tabulating Machine Company – C-T-R – IBM] British Tabulating Machine Company, Ltd. The use of the “Hollerith” tabulating & sorting machines by wholesale merchants. London, n.d. [ca. 1914]. Original printed self-wrappers. Light soiling. 8pp. Illustrated. 248 x 187 mm. Herman Hollerith, a clerk at the U...... More
Burroughs Adding Machine Company.] Burroughs Adding Machine Ltd. Burroughs latest . . . the Burrometer. N.p., n.d. Unbound postcard. Illustrated. 152 x 102 mm. Postcard advertising the Burrometer, a key-driven calculator described as “the fastest calculating machine in the world.” Origins of Cyberspace 241. More
1922. [Burroughs Adding Machine Company.] Burroughs Adding Machine Ltd. The A B C of business: Adding, bookkeeping, calculating. N.p., [May 1922]. Unbound brochure. [6]pp. Illustrated. 287 x 222 mm. Light soiling. Includes a list of British and Irish businesses that “have proved the efficiency of Burroughs machines.” Origins of Cyberspace..... More
1912. [Burroughs Adding Machine Company.] Burroughs Adding Machine Ltd. Statements. N.p., n.d. [ca. 1912]. Original printed wrappers. 17 [1]pp. Illustrated. 220 x 141 mm. Advertising brochure published by Burroughs’s British division, containing testimonials and sample statements generated on Burroughs bookkeeping machines. Origins of Cyberspace 236. More
1918. [Burroughs Adding Machine Company.] Burroughs Adding Machine Ltd. Burroughs adding machines. N.p., [September 1918]. Unbound brochure. [4]pp. Illustrated. 278 x 204 mm. Provenance: Stamp of the Railway, Manchester. Some soiling. Advertisement for the British Burroughs Standard Model 313, a seven-column machine designed for use in small retail businesses. Origins..... More
1918. [Burroughs Adding Machine Company.] Burroughs Adding Machine Ltd. Burroughs automatic bookkeeping machines. N.p., [January 1918]. Unbound brochure. [4]pp. Illustrated. 287 x 214 mm. Advertisement for the British Burroughs Standard Model 256E, a 13-column duplex machine. The name and address of Burroughs’s Manchester distributor, John Drucquer, are stamped on the..... More
Paoli, PA: Burroughs, 1955. Miehle, William. Burroughs truth-function evaluator. Mimeographed typescript. [Paoli, Pennsylvania: Burroughs Corporation, August 1, 1955.] Unbound as issued. 2ff. 2 photostat plates. 280 x 217 mm. “This is an electromechanical device which automatically evaluates a truth function expression in Polish notation” (f. 1). Origins of Cyberspace 794..... More
1936. [Davidson, Lowrie.] The combination method of operating the Burroughs adding machine [wrapper title]. N.p., ©1936. Original blue printed wrappers. [2], 12 [2]pp. 208 x 145 mm. In the days before electronic digital computing, the rate of speed at which mechanical calculation was performed depended to a large part upon..... More
Detroit: Burroughs, 1908. Burroughs Adding Machine Company. Railroad Department. The railroad Burroughs. Auditor of disbursements. Detroit: Burroughs Adding Machine Co., May 25, 1908. Original printed wrappers, spine repaired. 8pp. Color halftone tipped to p. 2. 210 x 136 mm. One of a series of brochures promoting the Burroughs Railroad Machine..... More
Detroit: Burroughs, 1908. Burroughs Adding Machine Company. Railroad Department. The railroad Burroughs. Auditor of freight receipts. Detroit: Burroughs Adding Machine Co., May 25, 1908. Original printed wrappers. 8pp. Color halftone tipped to p. 2. 210 x 136 mm. One of a series of brochures promoting the Burroughs Railroad Machine, Style..... More
Detroit: Burroughs, 1908. Burroughs Adding Machine Company. Railroad Department. The railroad Burroughs. Auditor of passenger receipts. Detroit: Burroughs Adding Machine Co., May 25, 1908. Original printed wrappers. 8pp. Color halftone tipped to p. 2. 210 x 136 mm. One of a series of brochures promoting the Burroughs Railroad Machine, Style..... More
Detroit: Burroughs, 1908. Burroughs Adding Machine Company. Railroad Department. The railroad Burroughs. Freight claim agent. Detroit: Burroughs Adding Machine Co., May 25, 1908. Original printed wrappers. 5 [1]pp. Color halftone tipped to p. 2. 210 x 136 mm. One of a series of brochures promoting the Burroughs Railroad Machine, Style..... More
Detroit: Burroughs, 1908. Burroughs Adding Machine Company. Railroad Department. The railroad Burroughs. Treasurer’s office. Detroit: Burroughs Adding Machine Co., May 25, 1908. Original printed wrappers. 12pp. Color halftone tipped to p. 2. 210 x 136 mm. One of a series of brochures promoting the Burroughs Railroad Machine, Style 15. Each..... More
Detroit: Burroughs, 1909. Burroughs Adding Machine Company. Railroad Department. Users of the railroad Burroughs. Detroit: Burroughs Adding Machine Company, January 15, 1909. Original printed wrappers. [2], 20 [2]pp. Illustrated. 230 x 100 mm. This advertising brochure for the electric version of the Burroughs Railroad Machine includes a list of users..... More
London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1956. National Physical Laboratory. Interdepartmental Study Group on the Application of Computer Techniques in Clerical Work. Wage accounting by electronic computer. London: H. M. Stationery Office, 1956. Original white printed wrappers. [2], 57 [1]pp. Text diagrams. 244 x 152 mm. The first report of the study..... More
1817. Babbage, Charles. Solutions of some problems by means of the calculus of functions. Extract from Journal of Science and the Arts 2 (1817): 371–79. Disbound. 215 x 135 mm. A further continuation of Babbage’s work on the calculus of functions, concerned primarily with its geometrical applications. Van Sinderen 1980..... More
1937. Calculating machines in scientific computing. Offprint from Nature 139 (May 15, 1937). Unbound. [2]pp., on single sheet. 215 x 134 mm. A brief notice of the growing use of commercial calculating machines in scientific applications. Special mention is made of L. J. Comrie’s Scientific Computing Service, newly established in..... More
1953. Bar-Hillel, Yehoshua (1915–75). Machine translation. Reproduced typescript. New York: Edmund Berkeley and Associates, [1953]. Without wrappers as issued. [2], 6pp. 281 x 216 mm. The Israeli logician, philosopher, and linguist Bar-Hillel, a professor at MIT, was one of the first theoreticians of machine translation of languages, and a central..... More
1950. Booth, Andrew D. Design principles of all purpose digital computers. Offprint from Acta physica austriaca 4 (1950). Unbound. Inscribed on the first page: “With the compliments of Andrew D. Booth. [85]–97 [1]pp. Text diagrams. 232 x 154 mm. Provenance: Andrew D. Booth. Probably the first paper on the principles..... More
