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it covers not only electronic stored program computers
but also machines such as those constructed at Harvard
by Aiken, relay computers built in Tokyo, British and
European machines, and little-known projects such as
the University of Toronto UTEC computer. No mention
is made of the Zuse machines. Each entry gives technical
details of the machine and short remarks that do not fit
into any of the pre-assigned entry categories.
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Blackburn, John E. Blagrave, John
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Blackburn, John E.
Components handbook
Year: 1949
Place: New York
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Binding: original cloth boards
Pagination: pp. xviii, 626
Size: 230x145 mm
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This is No. 17 in the Radiation Laboratory Series
publications. It was intended as a reference work to
accompany volumes 18–23 of the series. The volume was
intended to be a broad survey of the field of electrical,
mechanical and electronic components that were used
by the Radiation Laboratory, but because of the decision
to shut the Office of Publications, several chapters were
omitted. It represents a state-of-the-art survey of the
technology in use at the time and includes everything
from simple cables to elementary electronic devices,
instrument motors, relays and vacuum tubes. It is heavily
illustrated with photographs and diagrams of the devices
as well as numerous tables giving characteristics and test
results as determined by the Radiation Laboratory.
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B 174
Blagrave, John (1558?–1612)
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The mathematical jewel. Shewing the making, and most
excellent use of a singuler instrument so called: in that
it performeth with wonderfull dexteritie, whatsoever is
to be done, either by quadrant, ship, circle, cylinder,
ring, dyall, horoscope, astrolabe, sphere, globe, or any
such like heretofore devised: yea, or by most tables
commonly extant: and that generally to all places from
pole to pole.
Year: 1585
Place: London
Publisher: Walter Venge
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Figures: 3 engraved frontispiece plates; 2 engraved full-page
tables
Binding: contemporary limp vellum
Pagination: pp. [16], 124
Collation: 4 2 A–P 4 Q 2
Size: 268x182 mm
Blagrave was a mathematician, surveyor and instrument
maker from Reading. Educated at St. John’s College,
Oxford, he never took a degree but returned to Reading,
where he lived off the legacy of land left to him by his
father. He left a legacy to the town of Reading (the sum
of 20 nobles annually) to be competed for by three maid