{"id":6829,"date":"2016-05-06T16:04:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T15:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=6829"},"modified":"2016-05-06T16:04:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T15:04:13","slug":"from-the-arithmometer-to-electronic-arithmetic-1998","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/from-the-arithmometer-to-electronic-arithmetic-1998\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Arithmometer to Electronic Arithmetic &#8211; 1998"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the 29th January 1998 a series of presentations and talks were given during the Chapman\/Whitehead memorial meeting. One of these presentations was given by Anne Barrett from the Imperial College Archives. Her presentation was &#8220;From the Arithmometer to Electronic Artihmetic &#8211; The History until 1955.<\/p>\n<p>Alfred North Whitehead was Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College 1914-1924 and Sydney Chapman was Professor of Mathematics 1924-1946.<\/p>\n<p>Anne also mentions the construction, by college members in the 1950&#8217;s, of the Imperial College Computing Engine the ICCE 1.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"From the Arithmometer to Electronic Arithmetic: 1998\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E-kf24HXLic?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw &#8211; May 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;From the Arithmometer to Electronic Artihmetic &#8211; The History until 1955&#8221;, was a presentation by college archivist Anne Barrett in 1998&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18461,53,80,390],"tags":[138],"class_list":["post-6829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-history","category-events","category-people","category-technology","tag-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6829"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6837,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6829\/revisions\/6837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}