This final volume in the Charles Babbage Institute Reprint series provides a rare German account of the calculating machine industry in the first quarter of the 20th century, when the use of office machines became common in American and European business, government and science. Ernst Martin wrote "Die Rechenmaschinen" to address the issues and questions that the public had raised about the many calculating devices that were appearing on the market in the early 1920s. His book represents a developmental history of ...
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This final volume in the Charles Babbage Institute Reprint series provides a rare German account of the calculating machine industry in the first quarter of the 20th century, when the use of office machines became common in American and European business, government and science. Ernst Martin wrote "Die Rechenmaschinen" to address the issues and questions that the public had raised about the many calculating devices that were appearing on the market in the early 1920s. His book represents a developmental history of calculating machines in catalogue form - invaluable for collectors of old machines. The introduction describes the seven major types of machines that had been produced by 1925. The corpus of the book consists of a running list of specific calculating machines, arranged by the date the device was first patented or produced.
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Add this copy of The Calculating Machines (Die Rechenmaschinen): Their to cart. $254.50, very good condition, Sold by Salish Sea Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bellingham, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1992 by The MIT Press.
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Very Good++; Hardcover; Very light wear to the covers; Unblemished textblock edges; Tiny label to the bottom of the first endpaper, otherwise the endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5"-9.75" tall); 1.8 lbs; Dark reddish cloth covers with title in gold lettering; 1992, The MIT Press; 412 pages; "The Calculating Machines (Die Rechenmaschinen): Their History and Development (Charles Babbage Institute Reprint), " by Ernst Martin, et al.
Add this copy of The Calculating Machines (Die Rechenmaschinen): Their to cart. $320.00, very good condition, Sold by Tiber Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cockeysville, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1992 by MIT Press, Cambridge / Tomash Publishers, Los Angeles.
