Office Machines: Appliances & Methods

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Edité par Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd, London, 1921

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Hardcover in green cloth; 219 x 147mm; pp. viii, 147, 24 (ads). 'DESBOROUGH'S TOY'S': AN EARLY WORK ON MECHANICAL COMPUTING An early and extensive survey of office machinery, with a focus on calculating and tabulation machines. These are the calculating instruments that dominated and shaped both science and industry until the advent of electronic digital computing. Office Machines was published in the same year as Turck's better known (and more common) Origin of Modern Calculating Machines; these two apparently being the earliest such works in English, preceded only by a handful of works in German and French. The first four chapters are dedicated to, in turn, adding machines, calculating machines, book-keeping and accounting machines, and tabulating machines, and includes a classified list all the devices discussed, as well as numerous illustrations and a folding plate showing the kind of standardized printed table for use with a printing calculating machine. The suite of machines introduced here led to a step-change in both office and scientific calculation, transforming the volume and complexity of calculations that could be carried out by human ‘computers’. As David Allen Grier writes in his classic When Computers Were Human (2005): "The major change during this period [1880-1930] came from the mass-produced adding and calculating machines. Such machines have histories that can be traced back to the seventeenth century, but they were not commonly found in computing offices until the start of the twentieth century. While these machines decreased the amount of time required for astronomical calculations, they had a greater impact in the fields of economics and social statistics. They allowed scientists to summarize large amounts of data and to develop mathematical means for analyzing large populations. With the calculating machines came other ideas that we associate with mass production, such as standardized methods, generalized techniques, and tighter managerial control." As is clear from the preface, and the little that is known about his life, Walter Desborough was an extremely progressive thinker on the subject of office automation. In 1903 he joined the Home Office Statistical Branch, where he set about refining and improving its machinery. To supplement his meagre wage he also lectured on office technique, mainly to evening classes of women. The First World War added pressure on the Home Office to modernize, and Desborough was the man for the job. By the 1920s even Winston Churchill was referring to the wide range of office machinery then in use as 'Desborough's toys'. Having moved to the Treasury, in 1929 he then oversaw the introduction of tabulating machines into the national census, a move that historian of computing Jon Agar compares to the exactly contemporary introduction, by L.J. Comrie, of tabulating machines into scientific computing. After spending more time on the reform of the Home Office Desborough left the Civil Service to become general manager of the Powers Accounting Machine Company, later acquired by Remington Rand. Very scarce, especially in commerce; COPAC records only 5 UK holdings. Good to very good condition: cover with light marking to the upper third; internally clean throughout, noting only a faint dampstain to the upper margin of about 80 pages, though this is generally not easily visible and doesn’t affect the text. References: David Allen Grier, When Computers Were Human (2005); Jon Agar, The Government Machine (2003); Origins of Cyberspace (OOC) 286.…

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Titre
Office Machines: Appliances & Methods
Auteur
DESBOROUGH, Walter (b. 1888)
Éditeur
Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd, London
Année de publication
1921
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anglais
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Edition originale
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History of Computing

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