There he saw a calculating machine for the first time. In a report on the fair, Barnard wrote: To most persons the process of calculation involves a species of mental labor which is painful and ...

A MECHANICAL calculating machine for solving simultaneous linear equations up to ten in number under construction at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by Drs. V. Bush and J. B. Wilbur was ...

The decision to use electronics for our calculating machines has long been decided. However, that doesn’t mean that mechanical engineers didn’t put up a valiant, if ultimately futile ...

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