Origin of modern calculating machines

Name: Origin of modern calculating machines
Author: J. A. V. Turck

by J. A. V. Turck

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Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

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United States: The Western Society of Engineers, 1921.

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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

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Calculators

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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