Book ID: CBB000032655

The calculating machines (Die Rechenmaschinen): Their history and development. Translated and edited by Kidwell, Peggy Aldrich and Williams, Michael R. (1992)

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Martin, Ernst (Author)


MIT Press


Publication Date: 1992
Physical Details: xvii + 367 pp.; illus.; index

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Review Warwick, A. (1997) Review of "The calculating machines (Die Rechenmaschinen): Their history and development. Translated and edited by Kidwell, Peggy Aldrich and Williams, Michael R.". Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences (pp. 243-44). unapi

Review Swade, D. (1994) Review of "The calculating machines (Die Rechenmaschinen): Their history and development. Translated and edited by Kidwell, Peggy Aldrich and Williams, Michael R.". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 136-37). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Kidwell, Peggy Aldrich
Mosconi, Jean
Evans, Gillian R.
Drake, Stillman
Lions, Jacques-Louis
Lindgren, Michael
Journals
Rittenhouse: Journal of the American Scientific Instrument Enterprise
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Scientific American
La Vie des Sciences: Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Publishers
MIT Press
Linköping Univ., Dept. of Technology and Social Change
Hermann
Garland
VDG Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften
Concepts
Technology
People
Babbage, Charles
Galilei, Galileo
Scheutz, Georg
Klaus, Karl Karlovich
Müller, Johann Helfrich
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
17th century
Medieval
18th century
Places
North America: United States; Canada
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