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The Origins of Digital Computers

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Table of Contents

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction
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    Chapter 2 On the Mathematical Powers of the Calculating Engine
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    Chapter 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.
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    Chapter 4 Babbage’s Analytical Engine
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    Chapter 5 On a Proposed Analytical Machine
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    Chapter 6 Essays on Automatics
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    Chapter 7 Electromechanical Calculating Machine
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    Chapter 8 Scheme of Assembly of a Machine Suitable for the Calculations of Celestial Mechanics
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    Chapter 9 An Electric Tabulating System
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    Chapter 10 Calculating Machines: Their Principles and Evolution
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    Chapter 11 The Automatic Calculator IPM
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    Chapter 12 Method for Automatic Execution of Calculations with the Aid of Computers
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    Chapter 13 Technical Computing Machines
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    Chapter 14 The Outline of a Computer Development from Mechanics to Electronics
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    Chapter 15 Proposed automatic calculating machine
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    Chapter 16 The Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator—I
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    Chapter 17 Electrons and Computation
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    Chapter 18 The IBM Card-Programmed Electronic Calculator
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    Chapter 19 Computer
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    Chapter 20 The Relay Interpolator
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    Chapter 21 The Ballistic Computer
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    Chapter 22 A Bell Telephone Laboratories’ Computing Machine—I
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    Chapter 23 Binary Calculation
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    Chapter 24 Computing Machine for the Solution of large Systems of Linear Algebraic Equations
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    Chapter 25 Arithmetical Machine
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    Chapter 26 Report on Electronic Predictors for Anti-Aircraft Fire Control
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    Chapter 27 Colossus: Godfather of the Computer
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    Chapter 28 The Use of High Speed Vacuum Tube Devices for Calculating
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    Chapter 29 The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC)
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    Chapter 30 First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC
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    Chapter 31 Preparation of Problems for EDVAC-Type Machines
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    Chapter 32 Preliminary Discussion of the Logical Design of an Electronic Computing Instrument
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    Chapter 33 Electronic Digital Computers
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    Chapter 34 The EDSAC
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    Chapter 35 The E.D.S.A.C. Demonstration
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    Chapter 36 Babbage’s Analytical Engine
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Chapter title
Calculating Machines: Their Principles and Evolution
Chapter number 10
Book title
The Origins of Digital Computers
Published by
Springer Berlin Heidelberg, January 1982
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-61812-3_10
Book ISBNs
978-3-64-261814-7, 978-3-64-261812-3
Authors

L. Couffignal

Editors

Brian Randell

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