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Peggy Aldrich Kidwell
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IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. 41:7-19
Nineteenth and early twentieth century American governments—local, state, and national—profoundly shaped diffusion of novel mathematical instruments. The federal government ran an office that judged what inventions were patentable and a legal sys
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Peggy Aldrich Kidwell
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IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. 41:55-57
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Peggy Aldrich Kidwell
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Information & Culture. 50:578-587
Chess-playing automata that also played checkers were built in Europe from the late eighteenth century. One of these, named Ajeeb, came to the United States, spending much of the time from 1885 into the 1930s in New York and taking occasional tours a
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Peggy Aldrich Kidwell
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IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. 37:36-43
Printed accounts of the appearance and use of various forms of slide rule appear in a variety of 18th and early 19th American printed sources. Based largely on British work, these texts reveal both confidence in the practical potential of the instrum
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Peggy Aldrich Kidwell
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Proceedings of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/La Société Canadienne d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Mathématiques ISBN: 9783319432694
In the early twentieth century, growing use of numbers, combined with burgeoning high school enrollments and expanding technical education, encouraged the expansion of college mathematics teaching in the United States. It was an era when like-minded
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Peggy Aldrich Kidwell
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Historia Mathematica. 36(4):395-404
Material objects can tell us much about mathematical practice. In 1899, Albert Sexton, a Philadelphia mechanical engineer, received the John Scott Medal of the Franklin Institute for his invention of the omnimetre. This inexpensive circular slide rul
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Peggy Aldrich Kidwell
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Imago Mundi. 61:91-96
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Peggy Aldrich Kidwell
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Minerva. 45:353-356
At various times, US citizens have attempted to increase the supply of people trained in scientific and technical subjects. Before the Civil War, the expansion of elementary schools encouraged the founding of seminaries for teachers, while the openin
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Peggy Aldrich Kidwell
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Annals of Science. 71:595-597