Guide to the Grace Murray Hopper Papers

Series 4: Reports and Articles

Grace Murray Hopper Collection

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Series 4: Reports and Articles, 1946 - 1948

Box 3, Folder 7

Official Register of Harvard University (Volume XLIII, 25 September 1946,

No. 25) Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics, containing

an announcement for 1946-1947; published by the University * Cambridge,

Massachusetts. Includes: photo of Mark I (p. 52); half-page on Computation

Laboratory (p. 53); Research Course 20t. (Professor Aiken) Numerical Analysis

and Design of Calculating Instruments (p. 48).

Image(s)

Box 3, Folder 8

Harvard University Press. Fall Books, 1946 (correct as of 30 September

1946) Mathematics section, page 20: A Manual of Operation for the Automatic

Sequence Controlled Calculator by the Staff of the Computation Laboratory;

short description of contents, pages, diagrams, Tables of the Modified Hankel

Functions of Order One-Third and of Their Derivatives, by the Staff of the

Computation Laboratory, mentions importance of tables, pages,

Box 3, Folder 9

Harvard University: The President's Report -1946: Promotion to Professor (p.

25); Howard Hathaway Aiken -Professor of Applied Mathematics. Appointments

to Associate Professorship (p. 27); Donald Howard Menzel -Associate Director

for Solar Research in the Harvard College Observatory.

Box 3, Folder 10

Journal of Applied Physics (Volume 17, Number 10 -October 1946) Section:

Here and There (page 856); Harvard Computation Laboratory Comp. Lab,

general use of Mark I. Drawings: First Floor Plan, Comp Lab (p. 856). Drawing of

outside front view (cover).

Image(s)

Box 3, Folder 10

Science Vol. 104, No. 2712 Friday, 20 December 1946 (pp. 581-608): NRC

[National Research Council] News (p. 595) Division of Physical Sciences

announces formation of new Committee on High-Speed Calculating Machines.

Chairman: John von Neumann, Members: Howard H. Aiken, Walter Bartky,

Samuel H. Caldwell, George R. Stibitz, Warren Weaver, to study principles and

possibilities of machines to find ways of increasing speed of computation to

distribute information to interested parties.

Box 3, Folder 11

Mathematical Tables and other Aids to Computation. Published by the National

Research Council; A Quarterly Journal edited on behalf of the Committee

on Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation by Raymond Clare

Archibald (and) Derrick Henry Lehmer. Copies as of July 19, 1972:

Box 3, Folder 11

Number 16 October 1946

Box 3, Folder 11

Number 18 April 1947

Box 3, Folder 11

Number 20 October 1947

Box 3, Folder 12

Mathematical Tables and other Aids to Computation. Published by the National

Research Council; A Quarterly Journal edited on behalf of the Committee

on Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation by Raymond Clare

Archibald (and) Derrick Henry Lehmer. Copies as of July 19, 1972:

Box 3, Folder 12

Number 21 January 1948

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Number 22 * April 1948 (2 copies)

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Number 23 July 1948

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Number 24 October, 1948

Box 3, Folder 13

Electrical Engineering Published monthly by the American Institute of Electrical

Engineers; Editor --G. Ross Henninger. Volume 65, Numbers 8-9, August-

September 1946; Number 10, October 1946; Number 11, November 1946

(These contain the articles by Aiken and Hopper on the Mark I)

Box 4, Folder 1

Report No. 25, Bureau of Ordnance Computation Project, Harvard University,

Cambridge, Massachusetts Nord -8555, TASK C. Auxiliary Functions for the

Computation of the Moments of an Ogive, by Joseph O. Harrison, Jr., August

1946.

Box 4, Folder 2

Report No. 27, Bureau of Ordnance Computation Project, Harvard University,

Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Numeroscope, An Electronic-Photographic

Printer for Large-Scale, High-Speed Calculating Machines, by Harrison W. Fuller

January, 1947

Box 3, Folder 3

Popular Science Monthly (Volume 150: No. 5 -May 1947). "Inside the Biggest

Man-made Brain: Navy's new calculator has steel bones, silver nerves, paper

impulses, and can make mistakes" by Stephen L. Freeland (pp. 95-100).

Mark II photographs: 6 men holding some of the wiring; angled view of main

panel board; floor plan; printers and test panels; view over top looking at relay

cubicles; composite front view of calculator; easy removal for replacement of

stepping switches

Box 3, Folder 3

Office Work at Electronic Speed, article for submission to the magazine

The Office. Tissue paper copy of original 6 pages seems to be about early

1948 (Mechanical brains complete SSEC and Mark II); 3 pages history and

explanation of function, 3 pages possibilities and probable features for office

work.

Box 3, Folder 4

SCHEDULE "A" ELECTRONIC MACHINE wet copy process copy of original 8

pages. Date: "8-48(36" (in top right corner of first page); penciled note on top of

first page, "Jane is waiting for schedule "C" from Berkley"; part of an agreement

(unknown at this time) for an electronic machine with magnetic tape memory,

input, and output and fast memory of mercury tanks to be used in the business

of life insurance (see 1.b.).

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