Leslie Comrie information

Leslie John Comrie FRS (15 August 1893 – 11 December 1950) was an astronomer and a pioneer in mechanical computation. Leslie John Comrie was born in Pukekohe...

City council member Leslie Comrie (1893–1950), New Zealand astronomer Mike Comrie (born 1980), Canadian ice hockey player Neil Comrie (born 1947), Australian...

and Tab" For early use of tabulators for scientific computations see Leslie Comrie Wallace John Eckert The "sorting box" was controlled by the tabulator...

ubiquitous in industry and government for accounting and administration. Leslie Comrie's articles on punched-card methods and W. J. Eckert's publication of...

interpolation have thrived in the past 500 years: by the twentieth century Leslie Comrie and W.J. Eckert systematized the use of interpolation in tables of numbers...

done by an "electronic supercalculator" (of the day!) in one second. Leslie Comrie IBM Electromatic Table Printing Machine List of IBM products History...

This machine was composed of four modified Triumphator calculators. Leslie Comrie in 1928 described how to use the Brunsviga-Dupla calculating machine...

Barnes Robert Alfred Herman Doctoral students Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Leslie Comrie Hermann Bondi Other notable students Georges Lemaître Vibert Douglas...

different computing devices, including a differential analyser. One day Leslie Comrie visited Wilkes and lent him a copy of John von Neumann's prepress description...

August 14 – Francis Dvornik, Czech historian (d. 1975) August 15 – Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer, computing pioneer (d. 1950) August 17 – Mae...

Accounting Machines. 1935: BTM Rolling Total Tabulator introduced. 1937: Leslie Comrie establishes the Scientific Computing Service Limited - the first for-profit...

5 – Sydney Camm (died 1966), English aircraft designer. August 15 – Leslie Comrie (died 1950), New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer. August 24...

– Arthur Milne (born 1896), English space physicist. December 11 – Leslie Comrie (born 1893), New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer. Oort, Jan...

1945 – Charles Fabry, French physicist and academic (b. 1867) 1950 – Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and author (b. 1893) 1951 – Mustafa Muğlalı...

Bubble gum is invented by Walter Diemer in the United States. April – Leslie Comrie publishes an article "On the Construction of Tables by Interpolation"...

2016), 8 time World Champion in Rowing, attended Pukekohe high school Leslie Comrie, Astronomer and pioneer in mechanical computation Andy Dalton, Former...

New Zealand politician, 35th Mayor of Invercargill (d. 1950) 1893 – Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and academic (d. 1950) 1896 – Gerty Cori, Czech-American...

The North Korean Leader (Columbia University Press, 1988) p358 Died: Leslie Comrie, 57, New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer, died of a stroke...

Comet by numerical integration, in preparation for its return in 1910 Leslie Comrie (1930–1936) – a pioneer of numerical computation Donald Sadler (1936–1970)...

11 Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, German prince (b. 1863) Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer, computing pioneer (b. 1893) December 12 Luigi...

Alan C. Gilmore Albert F. A. L. Jones Charles Gifford Frank Bateson Leslie Comrie Pamela M. Kilmartin Ronald Alexander McIntosh Norman Rumsey Duncan Sommerville...

scientist Leonard Cockayne – botanist Naomi Cogger - epidemiologist Leslie Comrie – computer pioneer Lucy Cranwell – botanist G. H. Cunningham – "father"...

by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE), and later named for Leslie J. Comrie, founder and first director of the Scientific Computing Service Ltd...

Invercargill. 19 November: Tom Brindle, politician and activist 11 December: Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer. 12 December: Peter Fraser...

in 1950. Boris Babkin Leslie Fleetwood Bates Thomas Archibald Bennet-Clark Brebis Bleaney Leslie Comrie Charles Coulson Leslie Reginald Cox Harold Scott...

Office in 1930, working under the direction of the Superintendent, Leslie Comrie, when it was based at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, London....