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SCIENTIFIC computing has been materially aided of late years by the development of calculating machines, a development in which scientific workers themselves have had a say. We may instance the use of the modern Brunsviga, with its split register and automatic transfer features, in statistical calculations; the application by Dr. L. J. Comrie of the Brunsviga twin 13z to the Hartmann formula for the reduction of prismatic spectrograms; the use of the Burroughs machine, and later the National Cash Register machine, in the Nautical Almanac Office for finite differencing and integration; the demonstration recently given at Cambridge of the application of the Hollerith rolling-total tabulator for the same purpose, and for general statistical calculations; the machine invented by Mr. R. R. Mallock at Cambridge for solving simultaneous equations; and the Bush machine developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the numerical solution of differential equations, and since installed by Prof. D. R. Hartree at Manchester.
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Calculating Machines in Scientific Computing. Nature 139, 851–852 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139851a0
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