Author: Pepinsky, Ray

Publisher: State College: X-Ray Crystal Analysis Laboratory 1952.

Description: 390p large format hardback, original card cover illustrated with anchor motif, some wear and soiling to covers and edges, reproduced from typescript, frontispiece, many photographic illustrations of machinery, library markings from leading laboratory in the field, inscribed by Pepinsky to Max Perutz; includes paper by Perutz and many other collaborators, as well as 200p description and documentation of Pepinsky's electronic analogue computer 'X-RAC'; Pepinsky edited a similar work ten years later, this is his first attempt, a landmark in early analogue computing, which was considered superior to digital devices (ISBN: 0521823781)

Order No: PIP 158032

Language: English

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