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NPL Executive Committee Minutes (4 pp.) 18 Jan 1944
NPL Executive Committee Minutes (5 pp.) 21 March 1944
Report on a Proposed Central Mathematical Station (11 pp.) 3 April 1944*
NPL Executive Committee Minutes (4 pp.) 16 May 1944
NPL Executive Committee Minutes (4 pp.) 20 June 1944
NPL Executive Committee Minutes (5 pp.) 18 July 1944
Appointment of Superintendent of the Mathematics Division (1 p.) 28 Sept 1944*
Research Programme for Maths Division for the Year 1945-1946 (3 pp.) Oct 1944*
NPL Executive Committee Minutes (6 pp.) 21 Nov 1944
NPL Executive Committee Minutes (6 pp.) 19 Dec 1944*
Notes by Turing on Memory (8 pp., incomplete) undated*
NPL Executive Committee Minutes (8 pp.) 20 March 1945
NPL Executive Committee Minutes (7 pp.) 17 April 1945
NPL Executive Committee Minutes (7 pp.) 15 May 1945
U.S. Developments in Calculating Machines, by D.R. Hartree (17 pp.) May-July 1945*
NPL Executive Committee Minutes (8 pp.) 23 Oct 1945
Proposed Electronic Calculator, by Alan Turing (48 pp.) undated*
Memo from Womersley: "ACE" Machine Project (2 pp.) undated*
Control Mechanisms, by Sir Charles Darwin (2 pp.) 6 Dec 1945
ACE Machine Project, by Womersley (4 pp.) 13 Feb 1946*
Letter from Sir Charles Darwin to Angwin + reply (2 pp.) Feb 1946*
Letter from Radley to Womersley (2 pp.) 25 Feb 1946*
Status of the Delay Line Computing Machine at the P.O. Research Station (1 p.) 7 March 1946*
Letter from Paris to Hiscocks (2 pp.) 18 March 1946
NPL Executive Committee Minutes (8 pp.) 19 March 1946*
Letter from Hiscocks to Paris (2 pp.) 20 March 1946
Memo from Womersley to Hiscocks (1 p.) 20 March 1946
The Wilkes-Womersley Correspondence (14 pp.) 2 April 1946 - 14 April 1947
ACE Machine - Conversation with Dr Radley, Controller of Research, Post Office (1 p.) 6 April 1946*
Automatic Computing Engine (ACE), by Sir Charles Darwin (3 pp.) 17 April 1946*
Memo on proposal to instal an automatic computing engine (ACE) (3 pp.) 17 April 1946
Handwritten note concerning expenditure on ACE (1 p.) 24 April 1946
Letter from Womersley to Sutton + Reply (3 pp.) May 1946
Extract from the Minutes of the DSIR Advisory Council (4 pp.) 8 May 1946
ACE Project, by Hiscocks (1 p.) 10 May 1946
ACE Machine - Research Work at Post Office Research Station (1 p.) 21 May 1946*
NPL Executive Committee Minutes (9 pp.) 21 May 1946
Draft Report of the NPL Executive Committee for 1945 (14 pp., incomplete) June 1946
Report concerning ACE from Appleton to the Lord President of the DSIR (2 pp.) 21 June 1946
Letter from Womersley to Mason (1 p.) 29 June 1946
Memo from the Lord President of DSIR to Appleton (1 p.) 2 July 1946
Letter from Evans to the Secretary to the Treasury (2 pp.) 15 July 1946
Letter from Stephens to Womersley (2 pp.) 18 July 1946
Letter from Womersley to Nelson (2 pp.) 23 July 1946
Letter from Proctor to the Secretary to DSIR (1 p.) 1 August 1946
Letter from Sir Charles Darwin to Appleton (2 pp.) 13 August 1946*
Handwritten note concerning Huskey (1 p.) 14 Aug 1946
Memo from Wooldridge to Sir Charles Darwin (1 p.) 17 August 1946
Memo from Womersley to Director (1 p.) 30 Sept 1946
Letter from Hiscocks to Smith (2 pp.) 30 Oct 1946
Letter from Radley to Sir Charles Darwin (1 p.) 1 Nov 1946*
Letter from Robertson to Turing + Turing's Reply (2 pp.) Nov 1946
Britain to Make a Radio Brain, Daily Telegraph (1 p.) 7 Nov 1946*
Letter from Smith to Hiscocks (1 p.) 8 November 1946
Letter from Clifford to Turing + Turing's Reply (2 pp.) Nov 1946
Letter from Turing to Commander Miller (1 p.) 12 Nov 1946*
Letter from Sir Charles Darwin to Smith (1 p.) 13 Nov 1946
Proposal for Lectures by Dr Turing (1 p.) 16 Nov 1946*
NPL Executive Committee Minutes (7 pp.) 19 Nov 1946*
Memo from Maths Division to Burgess (1 p.) 21 Nov 1946
Notes Concerning Lectures by Turing (5 pp.) 22 Nov 1946*
ACE Project - Origin and Early History, by Womersley (1 p.) 26 Nov 1946*
Letter from Sir Charles Darwin to Radley (2 pp.) 26 Nov 1946*
Wilkes' Proposal for a Pilot Model ACE (4 pp.) Dec 1946
Turing's Comments on Wilkes' Proposal for a Pilot Machine (1 p.) undated*
Letter from Smith to Hiscocks (1 p.) 2 Dec 1946
Memo from Hiscocks to Secretary, DSIR (1 p.) 13 Dec 1946*
Extract from the Draft Report of the Executive Committee for the Year 1946 (5 pp.)*
NPL Report for the Year 1946 (75 pp.)
Letter from Turing to Ross Ashby (2 pp.) undated*
The State of Computing in Britain and the U.S. (14 pp. + 3 pp. correspondence and notes) 1947*
NPL Executive Committee Minutes (2 pp., incomplete) 21 Jan 1947*
Report on Visit to U.S.A. January 1-20 1947, by Turing (1 p.) 3 Feb 1947*
Memo from Womersley to Director (1 p.) 10 Feb 1947
Press cutting from NPL files: EDVAC, Philadelphia Evening Bulletin (3 pp.) 3 March 1947*
Notes on a Visit of Dr Hartree to Discuss Progress on the ACE (1 p.) 6 March 1947*
NPL Executive Committee Minutes (2 pp., incomplete) 18 March 1947*
Extracts from Executive Committee Minutes, 18 March and 18 June 1947 (1 p.) undated
Letter from Brody to Womersley (1 p.) March 1947
Letter from Womersley to Brody (1 p.) 9 April 1947
A Plan for the Design, Development and Production of the ACE (11 pp.) 12 April 1947
Draft Annual Report for 1946 + NPL Executive Committee Minutes (21 pp., incomplete) 15 April 1947*
ACE Pilot Test Assembly and Later Development, by Smith-Rose and Womersley (1 p.) 30 April 1947*
Letter from Hiscocks to Condon (1 p.) 1 May 1947
Letter from Hiscocks to King (2 pp.) 1 May 1947
Letter from King to Hiscocks (1 p.) 12 May 1947
NPL Executive Committee Minutes (5 pp.) 18 June 1947
Bibliography on Automatic Digital Computing Machinery (10 pp.) June 1947
Letter from Sir Charles Darwin to Appleton concerning Turing (2 pp.) 23 July 1947*
Letter from Appleton to Sir Charles Darwin concerning Turing (1 p.) 25 July 1947*
Draft of letter from Hogg to Treasury concerning Turing (2 pp.) undated*
Letter from Sir Charles Darwin to Hogg (1 p.) 29 July 1947
Memo to Superintendent of Maths Division (1 p.) 29 July 1947
Memo from Smith-Rose to Director (1 p.) 5 Aug 1947*
Memoranda from Hiscocks concerning transfer of staff to Radio Division (5 pp.) 6 Aug 1947
Letter from Woodward to Hiscocks (1 p.) 7 Aug 1947*
Extract from Letter from Hiscocks to Director (1 p.) 12 Aug 1947*
ACE Project: Transfer of Staff from Radio Division, by Womersley (1 p.) 13 Aug 1947*
Letter from Hiscocks to Woodward (1 p.) 14 Aug 1947
Authorization to Maths Division for Investigation and Report on ACE Project (1 p.) 15 Aug 1947
Authorization to Radio Division for Work in Connection with ACE (1 p.) 15 Aug 1947
Memo from Hiscocks to Womersley (1 p.) 15 Aug 1947
Post Office Account for Work on ACE (1 p.) 18 Aug 1947*
Initiation of ACE Project in Radio Division (1 p.) 21 Aug 1947*
ACE Project, by Womersley (1 p.) 21 August 1947*
Expenditure on ACE (2 pp.) 21 Aug 1947
Memo from Turing: Programming for ACE + Memo from Fieller (2 pp.) 30 Aug 1947*
Letter from Taylor to Director's Office (1 p.) 16 September 1947
Letter from Lavender to Smith-Rose (1 p.) 17 September 1947
NPL Executive Committee Minutes (7 pp.) 23 Sept 1947
ACE Test Assembly, by M. Woodger (24 pp. inc. diagrams) Sept/ Oct 1947
Hollerith Equipment for ACE Work - Immediate Requirements, by Fieller (1 p.) 16 Oct 1947*
Letter from Accountant to Her Majesty's Stationery Office (1 p.) 20 Oct 1947
Letter from Sir Charles Darwin to Turing (1 p.) 11 Nov 1947
ACE Problems (1 p.) 21 Nov 1947
NPL Report for the Year 1947 (29 pp.)
Test Assembly for Automatic Computing Engine (1 p.) undated
State of Development Reached on Version VI, by Woodger (1 p.) undated
Handwritten note re ACE budget (1 p.) 9 January 1948
ACE Version VIII, by Woodger (3 pp.) 2 Feb 1948
ACE Version 8A, by Davies and Woodger (10 pp. inc. diagrams) undated
NPL Executive Committee Minutes (8 pp.) 17 Feb 1948
Progress Report on the Automatic Computing Engine, by J.H. Wilkinson (143 pp.) April 1948*
NPL Executive Committee Minutes (8 pp.) 20 April 1948*
Memo from Womersley: ACE Pilot Models (1 p.) 26 April 1948*
Bibliography on Electronic Computing Machines (3 pp.) June 1948
Letter to Superintendent, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough (1 p.) 15 June 1948
Notes on Maintenance of ACE (7 pp.) 18 June 1948
Intelligent Machinery: A Report by A.M. Turing (22 pp.) July (?) 1948*
NPL Executive Committee Minutes (6 pp.) 20 July 1948
Letter from Lt. Col. Sir A. George Lee to Sir Charles Darwin (4 pp.) 30 July 1948
Letter from Sir Charles Darwin to Lt. Col. Sir A. George Lee (1 p.) 3 Aug 1948
NPL Executive Committee Minutes (7 pp.) 28 Sept 1948*
High Speed Calculating Machines: Meeting Held in Ministry of Supply (3 pp.) 5 Jan 1949*
Letter to Turing from Reed (1 p.) 12 Jan 1949
ACE Project: Draft of Paper for Advisory Council (3 pp.) 1 Feb 1949*
Letter from Appleton to Sir Charles Darwin (1 p.) 10 Feb 1949
Letter from Jolliffe to Hiscocks (1 p.) 10 Feb 1949
Proposal to DSIR Advisory Council Concerning ACE (5 pp.) 16 Feb 1949*
Extract from Minutes of DSIR Advisory Council (1 p.) 16 Feb 1949
Draft Report by the Advisory Council of DSIR on the Construction of ACE (6 pp.) 23 Feb 1949
Report by the Advisory Council of DSIR on the Construction of ACE (5 pp.) 7 March 1949*
Extract from Minutes of Defence Research Policy Committee (1 p.) 8 March 1949*
Letter from Appleton to the Lord President of DSIR (3 pp.) 17 March 1949
Memo from Ramage to Appleton (1 p.) 28 March 1949
Letter from Evans to France (3 pp.) 6 April 1949
Letter from Treasury to Evans (2 pp.) 16 May 1949
Letter from Evans to Sir Charles Darwin (1 p.) 28 May 1949
Handwritten note concerning funding of ACE (1 p.) 31 May 1949
Handwritten note concerning funding of ACE (1 p.) undated
Second Progress Report on the ACE, by S. Gill (29 pp. inc. diagrams) June 1949
Summary of Work in Progress in U.S. (2 pp.) 8 June 1949
Present Position and Future Prospects of Work at NPL on High Speed Computation (1 p.) 30 Aug 1949*
NPL Executive Committee Minutes (4 pp., incomplete) 15 Nov 1949*
Specifications of Pilot Model ACE (2 pp.) undated*
Letter from Ministry of Supply concerning ACE patents (1 p.) 6 May 1950
Letter from Jolliffe to Sir Charles Darwin (1 p.) 19 July 1950
Letter from Bullard to Secretary, DSIR (1 p.) 4 Aug 1950*
Handwritten note from Jolliffe to Evans (2 pp.) 16 Aug 1950*
Draft of a Report from Jolliffe to Lord President of DSIR (1 p.) undated
Memo from Evans to Jolliffe (1 p.) 18 Aug 1950
Letter from Jolliffe to Hiscocks (1 p.) 23 Aug 1950
Handwritten note to Jolliffe (1 p.) 24 Aug 1950
Letter to Jolliffe from Hiscocks (2 pp.) 31 Aug 1950*
Letter from Silversides to Colebrook (1 p.) 1 Sept 1950
Letter from Evans to Brown (1 p.) 8 Sept 1950
Draft Report to Lord President of DSIR concerning ACE, by Sir Ben Lockspeiser (2 pp.) Sept 1950
Letter to Robertson from Brown (2 pp.) 11 Oct 1950
Letter to Brown from Robertson (2 pp.) 25 Oct 1950
Handwritten minute to Brown (3 pp.) 27 Oct 1950
Minute from Jolliffe to Sir Charles Darwin (1 p.) 9 Nov 1950
Letter to Turing concerning ACE patents (1 p.) 1 Feb 1951
Letter to Turing concerning ACE patents (2 pp.) 2 Feb 1951
Letter from Turing to Woodger (1 p.) February 1951*
ACE Bulletin No. 1 (4 pp.) 3 April 1951
ACE Bulletin No. 2 (4pp.) 3 May 1951
Letter by Turing concerning ACE patents (1 p.) 12 June 1951
Postcard from Turing to Woodger (2 pp.) 15 June 1951
NPL Executive Committee Minutes (4 pp. incomplete) 19 June 1951*
NPL Executive Committee Memorandum on a Proposal to Construct the ACE (2 pp.) 12 Sept 1951*
Postcard from Turing to Woodger (2 pp.) 4 July 1951
Minute from Jolliffe to Sir Charles Darwin (2 pp.) 11 August 1951
The Logical Design of the Pilot Model ACE, by J.H. Wilkinson (42 pp. inc. diagrams) Sept 1951*
Programming and Coding for the Pilot Model ACE, by Wilkinson (46 pp.)20 Nov 1951*
Letter from Hiscocks to Jolliffe (2 pp.) 10 Dec 1951*
Minute from Jolliffe to Evans (1 p.) 14 Dec 1951*
Letter from Evans to Jolliffe (1 p.) 15 Dec 1951*
Letter from Jolliffe to Hiscocks (1 p.) 18 Dec 1951
Show Day: Notes for ACE Demonstrators (1 p.) 22 May 1952
Appendix to 'Programming and Coding for the Pilot Model ACE (1951)' (5 pp.) 1 March 1954
The Work of Maths Division and Uses of the ACE (4 pp.) 1 May 1954
Memo: Pilot Model Programs (2 pp.) 22 Nov 1954
ACE Patents 1951-1954 (3 pp.) undated
Letter concerning ACE patents (1 p.) 1 July 1955
Patent Specification: Inventors Turing, Davies, Woodger (19 pp. inc. diagrams) 1 July 1955*
Letter from Hiscocks to DSIR entitled 'Disposal of Pilot ACE' (1 p.) 30 Jan 1956*
Memo from Smith to Cawley (1 p.) 20 February 1956
Notes of Meeting of the NPL Executive Committee, by Cawley (2 pp.) 21 Feb 1956
Letter from Fryer to Hiscocks (1 p.) 27 Feb 1956
Convention on Digital Computer Techniques: British Computer Installations (7 pp.) 9-14 April 1956*
Memo from Christelow to Fryer (1 p.) 11 July 1956
Memo from Smith to Cawley (1 p.) 17 July 1956
Memo from Brunt entitled 'Disposal of Pilot ACE' (1 p.) 20 July 1956*
Memo from Hiscocks entitled 'Disposal of Pilot ACE' (1 p.) 26 July 1956*
Letter from Illingworth to Fryer entitled 'ACE: Final Model' (2 pp., incomplete) 6 Nov 1956*
Pilot Model ACE 1949-1956 (1 p.) undated
Some Features of the ACE Computer (40 pp. inc. diagrams) 8 May 1957
NPL-English Electric Joint Research Project ACE-Deuce (2 pp.) 26 Feb 1958
Letter concerning ACE patents (1 p.) 19 April 1963
Wilkinson Wins ACM Turing Award (1 p.) 1970*
Letter from Woodger to Doran (3 pp.) 27 Aug 1975
Dr E.T. Goodwin, NPL News (3 pp.) Jan 1975
Dr J.H. Wilkinson, NPL News (3 pp) April 1980*
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