The differential analyzer. A new machine for solving differential equations

by Vannevar Bush

$4,000 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books

First edition

FIRST EDITION WITH IMPORTANT PROVENANCE OF THE FIRST REPORT ON VANNEVAR BUSH'S DIFFERENTIAL ANALYZER, THE MOST POWERFUL COMPUTING MACHINE PRIOR TO THE ELECTRONIC DIGITAL COMPUTER. “In 1930, an engineer named Vannevar Bush at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT developed the first modern analog computer. The Differential Analyzer, as he called it, was an analog calculator that could be used to solve certain classes of differential

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