References and Links
Books and Articles:
Cherniak, Leonid. "Троичная машина в XIX веке." (Ternary
Machine in the 19th Century). Computerworld Russia 42:347 (12 November 2002): 31. This article can be read here.
DeMorgan, Augustus. "Description of a calculating machine, invented by Mr. Thomas Fowler of Torrington in Devonshire." AP.23.24. London: The Royal Society, June 1840. The full text of the document is here.
DeMorgan, Augustus. "Description of a calculating machine, invented by Mr. Thomas Fowler of Torrington
in Devonshire." Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society of London 4 (1837-1843): 243-244. An abstract of the above article.
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k560980/f266.table
Fowler,
Thomas. Tables for Facilitating Arithmetical
Calculations. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1838.
Glusker, Mark. "Thomas Fowler’s
Ternary Calculating Machine." The British Society for the History of Mathematics 46 (Summer 2002): 2-5. Also published in Journal of the Oughtred Society 11:2
(Fall 2002).
Glusker, Mark, Hogan, David and Vass, Pamela. "The Ternary Calculating Machine
of Thomas Fowler." IEEE
Annals of the History of Computing 27:3 (July/September 2005): 4-22. http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MAHC.2005.49
Hayes, Brian. "Third Base." American
Scientist 89:6 (November-December 2001): 490-494.
https://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/third-base/1
Hénin, Silvio. "La calcolatrice di Thomas Fowler." Le Scienze 463 (March 2007): 110.
Hénin, Silvio. "Perché i calcolatori sono binari?" Mondo Digitale 22 (June 2007):
50-57.
http://www.mondodigitale.net/Rivista/07_numero_2/Henin_p._50-57.pdf
Rumyantsev,
Dmitri. "Интервью с конструктором троичной ЭВМ." (Interviews With the Designer of the Ternary Computer). Upgrade 33:175 (August 2004).
An interview with Nikolai Brusentsov, designer of the Setun ternary
computer. In Russian.
Swade, Doron. " 'It Will Not Slice a Pineapple': Babbage, Miracles and Machines." Cultural Babbage: Technology, Time and Invention. London: Faber and Faber, 1996. 39-41.
Swade, Doron. The Cogwheel Brain: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer. London: Little, Brown and Co., 2000. 310 – 312. American edition published as The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer.
Vass, Pamela. "Rediscovering Thomas Fowler (1777-1843): Mathematician and Inventor." Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science 131 (December 1999): 11-25.
Websites:
John McKay and Pamela Vass, Thomas Fowler
http://www.thomasfowler.org.uk
David Hogan and Pamela Vass
http://www.hogans.org.uk/~dhogan
Jeffrey Winters, "Remembering the Adding
Machine," Mechanical
Engineering Magazine
http://www.memagazine.org/backissues/membersonly/sept03/features/adding/adding.html
Robert H. Orr, Augustus DeMorgan
http://www.engr.iupui.edu/~orr/webpages/cpt120/mathbios/ademo.htm
N.P. Brousentsov, S.P. Maslov, Alvarez J. Ramil and E.A. Zhogolev, "Development
of Ternary Computers at Moscow State University," Russian Virtual Computer Museum
http://www.computer-museum.ru/english/setun.htm
B.N. Malinovski, "Творец троичной ЭВМ," (Creator of the Ternary Computer), История вычислительной техники в лицах (Pioneers in Computer Technology) Ralph
C. Merkle, Two Types of Mechanical Reversible
Logic http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/mechano.html
http://lib.ru/MEMUARY/MALINOWSKIJ/8.htm
Paul Haeberli, The Laser Cutting Machine
http://www.graficaobscura.com/lasercut
James Allwright, Balanced Ternary Web Pages
formerly at http://perun.hscs.wmin.ac.uk/~jra/ternary/