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Erwin Tomash Library
Bishop, Calvin Collier Blachman, Nelson Meri
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Binding: original cloth boards
Pagination: pp. [iv], 243, [1]
Size: 253x171 mm
Fluid flow is of interest to both the physics and military
communities. In particular, the military applications are
in the areas of airflow around planes and projectiles,
through jet engines and in the behavior of explosives.
Thus it was appropriate for both the academic and
military groups to sponsor such a meeting.
This volume includes the papers presented at the 1953
meeting (with the exception of a talk given by John von
Neumann on the Role of Computing Machines, but one
can speculate that it was similar to a number of such talks
he gave around this time in which fluid dynamics played
a prominent role). The papers that are produced here deal
with the theoretical aspects of problems, and there are
few detailed references to any military applications.
Illustrations available:
Title page
B 170
Bishop, Calvin Collier (1882–)
Practical use of the slide rule
Year: 1944
Place: New York
B 170
Publisher: Current Publishing
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Binding: original printed paper wrappers
Pagination: pp. 63
Size: 212x132 mm
Bishop was a teacher in the Technical High School in
Buffalo, New York.
This is a generic text on the use of the slide rule. It
contains a series of problems for the student, with
answers, at the end.
Illustrations available:
Title page
B 171
Bishop, Calvin Collier (1882–)
[Slide rule]
b/w: Keuffel & Esser Company; Elementary
instructions for operating the slide rule.
b/w: Harris, Charles O.; Slide rule
Year: n/d
Place: Tehran, Shāh’ Ābād
Publisher: Kit-abfurūshī-i-Zavvār
Edition: 1st
Language: Farsi
Binding: original printed paper wrappers
Pagination: pp. [4], 106
Size: 215x138 mm
This is a Farsi edition of this classic work on the slide
rule. First published as Practical use of the Slide rule,
1944.
Illustrations available:
Title page
B 172
Blachman, Nelson Meri (1923–)
A survey of automatic digital computers
Year: 1953
Place: Washington, D.C.
Publisher: Office of Naval Research
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Binding: original cardboard wrappers
Pagination: pp. vi, 109, [1]
Size: 267x184 mm
Blachman worked for the Office of Naval Research in
Washington, D.C. Earlier surveys of computers had
been done, but the rapid development of the technology
had made them out of date. Blachman, with help from
the others acknowledged in the Preface, undertook to
bring the survey up to date. The work is useful because
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