Early Computing in the UK

Of possible interest to the List, especially to our members in the Greenwich Time Zone... I have aquired two books published in England in the 50's... one is buried in a stack (I am building more shelves for more books... arrgh) but is a general treatise on the state of the art from a very technical stance. It has many great photos. The other book came from yesterday's TRW haul... it is "ELECTRONIC COMPUTERS Principles and Applications" by T.E. Ivall published by Iliffe & Sons, Second Ed of 1960. (two prev: 1956, 7) This book covers Analogue and Digital machines and is packed with many plates, pictures, and diagrams... it has several views of the ACE, the TRIDENT analogue flight simulator, several Ferranti and Creed devices, etc., etc. I have made a picture gallery on my web site and I have now got to scan a bunch of these things in... a project that will take only about a long weekend to complete.... sometime in 2015 if my best estimates are correct. ;) But I'd like to get this stuff up, because it tends to balance the Americo-centric focus of foundation computing. Remember who had the first actual 'Von Neuman-ish' machine in service..... Also, in one of the manuals, I have a large model/feature/config chart of all known machines from the EDSAC up to about 1966... from all manufacturers, Germany, Japan, France, Switzerland, etc. But its big.... oh well, soon! Cheerz John