Leslie John Comrie FRS (15 August 1893 – 11 December 1950) was an astronomer and a pioneer in mechanical computation. Leslie John Comrie was born in Pukekohe... 12 KB (1,137 words) - 09:07, 12 February 2024 |
City council member Leslie Comrie (1893–1950), New Zealand astronomer Mike Comrie (born 1980), Canadian ice hockey player Neil Comrie (born 1947), Australian... 878 bytes (139 words) - 04:48, 5 January 2024 |
 | and Tab" For early use of tabulators for scientific computations see Leslie Comrie Wallace John Eckert The "sorting box" was controlled by the tabulator... 19 KB (2,239 words) - 16:50, 19 March 2024 |
 | interpolation have thrived in the past 500 years: by the twentieth century Leslie Comrie and W.J. Eckert systematized the use of interpolation in tables of numbers... 57 KB (6,439 words) - 20:51, 18 April 2024 |
| ubiquitous in industry and government for accounting and administration. Leslie Comrie's articles on punched-card methods and W. J. Eckert's publication of... 170 KB (17,621 words) - 03:27, 13 May 2024 |
 | This machine was composed of four modified Triumphator calculators. Leslie Comrie in 1928 described how to use the Brunsviga-Dupla calculating machine... 39 KB (4,440 words) - 10:17, 13 May 2024 |
 | Barnes Robert Alfred Herman Doctoral students Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Leslie Comrie Hermann Bondi Other notable students Georges Lemaître Vibert Douglas... 53 KB (6,251 words) - 07:05, 11 May 2024 |
August 14 – Francis Dvornik, Czech historian (d. 1975) August 15 – Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer, computing pioneer (d. 1950) August 17 – Mae... 36 KB (3,989 words) - 02:35, 19 April 2024 |
 | different computing devices, including a differential analyser. One day Leslie Comrie visited Wilkes and lent him a copy of John von Neumann's prepress description... 26 KB (2,531 words) - 00:38, 5 March 2024 |
– Arthur Milne (born 1896), English space physicist. December 11 – Leslie Comrie (born 1893), New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer. Oort, Jan... 14 KB (1,350 words) - 19:28, 5 January 2024 |
1945 – Charles Fabry, French physicist and academic (b. 1867) 1950 – Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and author (b. 1893) 1951 – Mustafa Muğlalı... 51 KB (5,153 words) - 01:03, 6 April 2024 |
 | Bill Birch, MP—was a long-time resident Possum Bourne, Rally driver Leslie Comrie, astronomer and pioneer in mechanical computation Andy Dalton, resident... 44 KB (4,766 words) - 13:48, 28 April 2024 |
done by an "electronic supercalculator" (of the day!) in one second. Leslie Comrie IBM Electromatic Table Printing Machine List of IBM products History... 13 KB (1,367 words) - 20:32, 12 October 2023 |
 | 11 Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, German prince (b. 1863) Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer, computing pioneer (b. 1893) December 12 Luigi... 90 KB (8,904 words) - 16:00, 13 May 2024 |
 | Accounting Machines. 1935: BTM Rolling Total Tabulator introduced. 1937: Leslie Comrie establishes the Scientific Computing Service Limited - the first for-profit... 58 KB (6,031 words) - 00:01, 29 March 2024 |
5 – Sydney Camm (died 1966), English aircraft designer. August 15 – Leslie Comrie (died 1950), New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer. August 24... 10 KB (1,016 words) - 21:33, 2 December 2023 |
Bubble gum is invented by Walter Diemer in the United States. April – Leslie Comrie publishes an article "On the Construction of Tables by Interpolation"... 18 KB (1,756 words) - 13:22, 7 January 2024 |
Comet by numerical integration, in preparation for its return in 1910 Leslie Comrie (1930–1936) – a pioneer of numerical computation Donald Sadler (1936–1970)... 4 KB (323 words) - 10:20, 31 March 2024 |
New Zealand politician, 35th Mayor of Invercargill (d. 1950) 1893 – Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and academic (d. 1950) 1896 – Gerty Cori, Czech-American... 61 KB (6,186 words) - 18:01, 12 May 2024 |
 | The North Korean Leader (Columbia University Press, 1988) p358 Died: Leslie Comrie, 57, New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer, died of a stroke... 89 KB (12,358 words) - 15:41, 2 April 2024 |
production and quality control. While at the Shirley Institute he also met Leslie Comrie and became interested in computational techniques. As a result, he spent... 17 KB (1,779 words) - 06:07, 6 May 2024 |
E. Klopsteg (1889–1991), American physicist MPC · 3520 3521 Comrie 1982 MH Leslie Comrie (1893–1950), New Zealand-born astronomer and pioneer in mathematical... 164 KB (420 words) - 23:28, 29 February 2024 |
by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE), and later named for Leslie J. Comrie, founder and first director of the Scientific Computing Service Ltd... 1 KB (157 words) - 13:37, 16 April 2023 |
scientist Leonard Cockayne – botanist Naomi Cogger - epidemiologist Leslie Comrie – computer pioneer Lucy Cranwell – botanist G. H. Cunningham – "father"... 9 KB (755 words) - 03:35, 26 April 2024 |
Alan C. Gilmore Albert F. A. L. Jones Charles Gifford Frank Bateson Leslie Comrie Pamela M. Kilmartin Ronald Alexander McIntosh Norman Rumsey Duncan Sommerville... 4 KB (405 words) - 06:19, 22 October 2023 |
 | Comrie is a lunar impact crater. It is located on the rugged far side of the Moon relative to the Earth, beyond the western limb. Nearby craters of note... 5 KB (442 words) - 01:51, 26 January 2024 |
Office in 1930, working under the direction of the Superintendent, Leslie Comrie, when it was based at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, London.... 7 KB (700 words) - 12:20, 21 August 2022 |
Northampton 1830-05-27 1 January 1790 – 17 January 1851, PRS 1838-1848 Leslie Comrie 1950-03-16 15 August 1893 – 11 December 1950 James Comyn 1760-04-24... 160 KB (114 words) - 13:07, 2 April 2024 |
Invercargill. 19 November: Tom Brindle, politician and activist 11 December: Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer. 12 December: Peter Fraser... 11 KB (927 words) - 21:02, 18 January 2024 |
in 1950. Boris Babkin Leslie Fleetwood Bates Thomas Archibald Bennet-Clark Brebis Bleaney Leslie Comrie Charles Coulson Leslie Reginald Cox Harold Scott... 11 KB (1,029 words) - 21:47, 18 August 2023 |