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- Origin of modern calculating machines
Chapters
15 totalOrigin of Modern CalculatingMachines
Foreword
Chapters
Illustrations
The Modern Accounting Machine
The Early Key-Driven Art
The Key-Driven Calculator
Early Efforts in the Recording Machine Art
First Practical Recorders
Introduction of the Modern Accounting Machine
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Language
en
Duration
~3 hours (215K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
United States: The Western Society of Engineers, 1921.
Credits
deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Release date
2022-11-19
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
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About the author
J. A. V. Turck
A curious early historian of technology, this author explored how calculating machines developed from simple counting aids into the mechanical ancestors of modern computing. His work turns a technical subject into a lively story about invention, persistence, and human ingenuity.
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