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Portable thermometer screen

1925

Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) pilot model, 1949

1949

Mercury delay line from the ACE computer, NPL

1958-1967

Punch cards in tray for Pilot ACE computer

circa 1950

Assmann psychrometer

1922

Slow-speed ACE simulator, 1950

1950

Wind tunnel calibration balance

1940-1960

Experimental screw diameter measuring machine

1915

Concave diffraction grating on speculum metal

1926, May

Transmission diffraction grating

1950-1958

Dial gauge testing machine

1954

Nebula and PALGO material

ALGOL material

Numeric analysis and programming material

Published material

Published papers

Published papers

Formal Language Description

No.7 Floyd at Chilton part 3 and 4. August 1966

No.5 D.T. Ross Pt 3. B. Randell Pt 1. October 1966.

Declarations in Programming Languages and their relation to Procedure Closures

No.4 B Randell Pt 1 and 2. October 1966

No.2 Pyle (1) Pyle (2) 10.1.69

No.3 Stsepinski LEC at ULICS on Computers in USSR. Feb 1967

No.15 Tony Day lectures on NEAT code for Elliott 4120, October 1969.

No.14 Tony Day lectures 3 and 4, October 1969

No.10 Tony Day LECS Computer Display description. October 1969.

AGOL guides

Papers by M. Woodger 14/01. Book review: A history of Computing in the Twentieth Century. Paper: The History and Present use of Digital Computers at the National Physical Laboratory. Paper: The Aim of Structured Programming. Paper: On Sematic Levels in Programming. Various correspondence.

Basic Machine System Information. Basic Language Machine Memorandum

Interim Report 1569-TR-1. Evaluation of Basic Language Concept. At the request of I.C.L, Auerbach Corporation is conducting an evaluation of the Basic Language to determine its suitability for a new range of computers to be marketed in the 1970's.

Poster: Digital Computer Museum, Marlboro, Massachusetts. Lecture Tom Flowers on The Colossus, WWII Code Breaking Machine.

Poster: Digital Computer Museum, Marlboro, Massachusetts. Lecture 'The Pilot Ace' designed by Alan Turing

Photographs showing the development of Automatic Computer Engine (ACE)

NPL Staff photograph

Photographs of ACE equipment

Group and ACE photos

Photos of valve assembley

Photos of electronic equipment

Individual and group photographs

Report of sub-working party on Algol to RLB compiler, by M. Woodger, KSWP/P9. Egdon improvements sub-working party, EISWP/M.2

KDF9 Software Working Party File No. 5/8/03. Various notes and correspondence

Translater track list, programming files

Operating of ACE ALGOL Compiler

ACE ALGOL Translater

Tests of ACE ALGOL

Pilot ACE Test Frame Servicing Record of chassis.

Report on a visit to U.S.A. 14th to 31st May, 1965. International Federation for Information Processing (I.F.I.P.) in Princetown. General Documents

Proceedings of IFIP Congress 65. Information Processing 1965. Volume 1 and 2. Editor Wayne A. Kalenich.

IFIP Congress 65 Program Committee 44/028. August 1964. Orientation Program and Symposia. General Documents.