Reference [103] shows a truncated
clipping from a New York World article supposedly dated "March
1, 1920" (which is obviously a mistake, since it refers to the Statistical
Bureau in Hamilton Hall, which did not exist until 1929) called "SUPER
COMPUTING MACHINES SHOWN":
"One of the tabulators exhibited can work out and print the results of as many as twelve difficult problems in just a single rapid operation. It is designed to handle differences and reckon powers of numbers up to the tenth, whereas such machines hiterto [sic] have been able to compute only the second power of numbers.
"Richard Warren and Robert M. Mendenhall, research workers at Columbia and statistical consultants for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, are responsible for most of the inventions which were first announced at the educator's convention in Atlantic City last week.
"These new machines will be a tremendous boon to research, Dr. Ben. D. Wood, Director of the Statistical Bureau, said yesterday, through making statistical procedure more accurate, much faster and less expensive. With the assistance of the new tabu-"
(The clipping breaks off here.) I can't imagine what they are talking about, unless it's the Columbia Difference Tabulator or a prototype of it.
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