Author: Harvard University. Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 48
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The Annual Report of the Librarian of Harvard University (John Langdon Sibley) Read 15 July 1864, Etc
Author: Harvard University. Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British Library (London)
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 780
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 780
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The Nation
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Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Author: John Langdon Sibley
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Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Vol. 1 includes "an appendix, containing an abstract of the steward's accounts, and notices of non-graduates, from 1649-50 to 1659."
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Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Vol. 1 includes "an appendix, containing an abstract of the steward's accounts, and notices of non-graduates, from 1649-50 to 1659."
Paper Machines
Author: Markus Krajewski
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262297272
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Why the card catalog—a “paper machine” with rearrangeable elements—can be regarded as a precursor of the computer. Today on almost every desk in every office sits a computer. Eighty years ago, desktops were equipped with a nonelectronic data processing machine: a card file. In Paper Machines, Markus Krajewski traces the evolution of this proto-computer of rearrangeable parts (file cards) that became ubiquitous in offices between the world wars. The story begins with Konrad Gessner, a sixteenth-century Swiss polymath who described a new method of processing data: to cut up a sheet of handwritten notes into slips of paper, with one fact or topic per slip, and arrange as desired. In the late eighteenth century, the card catalog became the librarian's answer to the threat of information overload. Then, at the turn of the twentieth century, business adopted the technology of the card catalog as a bookkeeping tool. Krajewski explores this conceptual development and casts the card file as a “universal paper machine” that accomplishes the basic operations of Turing's universal discrete machine: storing, processing, and transferring data. In telling his story, Krajewski takes the reader on a number of illuminating detours, telling us, for example, that the card catalog and the numbered street address emerged at the same time in the same city (Vienna), and that Harvard University's home-grown cataloging system grew out of a librarian's laziness; and that Melvil Dewey (originator of the Dewey Decimal System) helped bring about the technology transfer of card files to business.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262297272
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Why the card catalog—a “paper machine” with rearrangeable elements—can be regarded as a precursor of the computer. Today on almost every desk in every office sits a computer. Eighty years ago, desktops were equipped with a nonelectronic data processing machine: a card file. In Paper Machines, Markus Krajewski traces the evolution of this proto-computer of rearrangeable parts (file cards) that became ubiquitous in offices between the world wars. The story begins with Konrad Gessner, a sixteenth-century Swiss polymath who described a new method of processing data: to cut up a sheet of handwritten notes into slips of paper, with one fact or topic per slip, and arrange as desired. In the late eighteenth century, the card catalog became the librarian's answer to the threat of information overload. Then, at the turn of the twentieth century, business adopted the technology of the card catalog as a bookkeeping tool. Krajewski explores this conceptual development and casts the card file as a “universal paper machine” that accomplishes the basic operations of Turing's universal discrete machine: storing, processing, and transferring data. In telling his story, Krajewski takes the reader on a number of illuminating detours, telling us, for example, that the card catalog and the numbered street address emerged at the same time in the same city (Vienna), and that Harvard University's home-grown cataloging system grew out of a librarian's laziness; and that Melvil Dewey (originator of the Dewey Decimal System) helped bring about the technology transfer of card files to business.
The Doolittle Family in America
Author: William Frederick Doolittle
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016855594
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016855594
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot, "apostle to the Indians," 1598-1905
Author: Wilimena Hannah Eliot Emerson
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Harvard College Records
Author: Harvard University
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Contains those portions of the early records of Harvard College known as College Books 1, 3, and 4. College Book 2 was destroyed when the second Harvard College was burned in January, 1764
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Contains those portions of the early records of Harvard College known as College Books 1, 3, and 4. College Book 2 was destroyed when the second Harvard College was burned in January, 1764