COMPUTERS. Grosch, H.R.J., editor. Proceedings Scientific Computation Forum, 1948. Published by IBM, NYC, 1950. 11″x8.5″, 126. Cloth, in the original plain brown dj. FINE copy in an excellent dust jacket. $200
Contributors include: Frank Verzuh, H.R.J. Grosch, Cuthbert Hurd, Francis J. Murray, L.H. Thomas, and numerous others. There is also an unusual paper by George Gamow, Jack Belzer, and Geoffrey Keller, “Dynamics of Elliptical Galaxies”, on pp 67-69. Much of the content is on the application of computers–as in the use of computers at Naval Proving Ground, Aberdeen, Nautical Almanac Office, Beech Aircraft Corp., GE, Census, and others.