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Collection List

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This is a small list of the rare documents ranging from 1747 to 2004 that can be found in our collection


--Our Research Library includes thousands of pages of contemporaneous magazines, brochures, books, ads, manuals, and over 100 rare documents. The Library also has many peripheral items, games, and software.

  • Hamburgisches Magazin (1747, Description of Vaucanson's Flute Player)
  • Babbage's Calculating Engine (1834)
  • Electric Tabulating Machine (1889, Herman Hollerith's personal copy)
  • The Hollerith Electric Tabulating System (1890)
  • Counting a Nation by Electricity (1891)
  • Calculating Machines (1947)
  • Moore School Lectures Vol. II (1947)
  • Mathematical Theory of Communication (1948)
  • Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems (1949)
  • Collection of books from Claude Shannon's personal library (1940s)
  • The "Moore's Law" article (Electronics, 1965)
  • Printout from Difference Engine #2 (London Science Museum, 2004)