Ernst Martin, The Calculating Machines : Their History and Development, translated and edited by Peggy Aldrich Kidwell and Michael R. Williams. Volume 16 in the Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series for the History of Computing. Cambridge, Mass, and London: MIT Press; Los Angeles and San Francisco: Tomash Publishers, 1992. Pp. xvii + 367, illus. ISBN 0-262-13278-8. £44.95 [Book Review]

British Journal for the History of Science 26 (1):126-127 (1993)
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