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PUNCH CARD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING EQUIPMENT]. BAEHNE, George Walter, ed. Practical applications of the punched card method in colleges and universities . New York: Columbia University Press, 1935. Original red cloth stamped in black, gilt and blind. FIRST EDITION. Baehne's book was the first in English to discuss the application of punched-card methods to scientific research. Punched-card tabulating systems, which developed from the tabulating machines invented by Herman Hollerith, were originally intended for commercial and statistical purposes; they were designed to process information by performing the same operation on all the records in a data file (deck of punched cards) before proceeding to the next operation. The machines as originally conceived were not well suited to scientific computation, which typically involves the performance of a sequence of operations on a single datum. However, in the 1930s IBM began producing punched-card accounting machines with expanded capabilities (such as subtraction and multiplication) and greater versatility. Some scientists, particularly astronomers, began using these machines to solve complex problems. One of the contributors was Wallace J. Eckert, whose "Miscellaneous research applications: Astronomy" (pp. 389-96) included in this lot describes his pioneering use of punched-card machines to perform astronomical calculations using equipment supplied by IBM for the purpose. Eckert later expanded on this topic in his Punched Card Methods in Scientific Computation also included in this lot. OOC 219. [ With: ] BAEHNE, ed. Practical applications of the punched card method in colleges and universities. Medical research and hospitals . Offprint from Practical Applications of the Punched Card Method in Colleges and Universities . New York: Columbia University Press, 1935. Original printed wrappers, cloth spine. A sample of IBM's proprietary punched card is included in this item, which was probably intended for use by IBM salesmen attempting to crack the medical market. OOC 220. -- CASEY, Robert S. and Perry, James W., eds. Punched cards: Their application to science and industry . New York: Reinhold Publishing Corp, 1951. Original gray cloth, printed dust-jacket. OOC 524. -- CASEY et al. Punched cards: Their application to science and industry . New York: Reinhold Publishing Corp, 1958. Original dark red cloth, printed dust-jacket. OOC 525. -- DOSS, M. P., ed. Information processing equipment . New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1955. Original red-brown cloth, dust-jacket. OOC 574. -- ECKERT, Wallace J. Punched card methods in scientific computation. [New York]: Thomas J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau, 1940. Original bright orange cloth. OOC 576. -- KORMES. Numerical solution of the boundary value problem for the potential equation by means of punched cards . Offprint from Review of Scientific Instruments 14 (1943). Original brown printed wrappers. OOC 757. -- KORMES, Mark. A note on the integration of linear second-order differential equations by means of punched cards . Offprint from Review of Scientific Instruments 14 (1943). Unbound as issued. OOC 758. -- MURRAY, Francis Joseph. The theory of mathematical machines . New York: King's Crown Press, 1947. Original printed stiff wrappers, spiral-bound. OOC 803. -- MURRAY. Mathematical machines . 2 vols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961. Original green cloth. OOC 804. -- DESBOROUGH, Walter. Office machines, appliances and methods . London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd, 1921. Original green cloth. OOC 286 -- POWERS-SAMAS Accounting Machines Ltd. Describing: Powers-SAMAS punched card accounting ... London, [ca. 1930]. Unbound folding brochure. OOC 357. -- POWERS-SAMAS Accounting Machines Ltd. From original data to final printed records by "Powers Four." N.p, n.d. [ca. 1940?] Unbound blotter. OOC 358. -- POWERS-SAMAS Accounting Machines Ltd. Accounting is best done on British machines . N.p, n.d. [ca. 1940?]. Unbou