Report on a fact-finding trip leading to the development of the LEO computer, 1947

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[Report on a fact-finding trip to the USA in 1947 May-June which was to lead to the LEO computer] / T. R. Thompson and O.W. Standingford. Typescript with some ms. amendments. Thompson, a Cambridge mathematician, and Standingford were sent to the USA to find out what developments had taken place, since before the war, in accounting and office machinery, reporting to John R. M. Simmons, employed by the Lyons company to build up a system of management accounting. 200p.]

[Report on a fact-finding trip to the USA in 1947 May-June which was to lead to the LEO computer].

These papers are related to a trip to America by Oliver Standingford and Raymond Thompson, two employees of J Lyons and Co. They were sent to America to look at new business methods. While there, they heard about the EDSAC, one of the earliest British computers, being built in Cambridge. The discoveries made on this trip were instrumental in J Lyons and Co becoming the first British company to use a computer, the LEO I.

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Category:
Archive
Object Number:
1979-427
Materials:
paper (fibre product)
Measurements:
overall: 300 mm x 210 mm
type:
technical report
credit:
From Terry Ward