Sheets, The Leibnitz Calculating Machine
date: label: date made
content: 1897
name: label: maker
content: Jordan, Wilhelm
label: maker
content: Steppes, C.
notes: label: Description
content: In the llate nineteenth century, with the successful introduction of commercial calculating machines, scholars looked with renewed interest in prototypes of such machines. One innovator who received new attention for his work in this area was the seventeenth centurymathematician Gottfried Leibniz. This is a twenty-page mimeographed copy of an English translation of an article from a German publication (the title is translated as the Journal for Surveying: Organ of the German Association of Geometricians). The authors are said to be W. Jordan, professor in Hannover, and C. Steppes, tax councillor in Munich. The translation was made at the Library of the Patent Office.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Jordan, W., "Die Leibnizsche Rechenmaschine," <I> Zeitschrift für Vermessungswesen </I>, (1897) 26, pp. 289–315
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Bavaria, Munich
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Calculating Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of SCM Corporation, SCM Business Equipment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.3084.167
label: catalog number
content: 1979.3084.167
label: nonaccession number
content: 1979.3084
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sheets, Set Of
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 cm x 28 cm; 8 21/32 in x 11 1/32 in