"Office Automation," handbook and newsletter supplements
Creation: 1955-1960Abstract
Richard Hunt Brown (1903-1978) was an engineer and president of Automation Consultants, Inc., a firm that provided a subscription updating service for monthly newsletters, with pages containing reviews and descriptions, prices, and images of new equipment and appliances. This collection consists of five volumes of "Office Automation: Integrated and Electronic Data Processing," published in 1955 with updated content provided as newsletters/supplements between 1955 and 1960.
Dates
- Creation: 1955-1960
Creator
- Brown, R. Hunt (Richard Hunt), 1903-1978 (Author, Person)
- Automation Consultants, Inc. (Publisher, Organization)
Extent
5 volume(s)
Physical Description
5 volumes of newsletters. Removed from binders for preservation purposes. Binders not retained.
Biographical Note
Richard Hunt Brown (1903-1978) was an engineer and president of Automation Consultants, Inc. Brown graduated from Yale University in 1927 with a degree in electrical communications. He served as assistant vice president of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. and as an automation and communication consultant to the Ernst & Ernst accounting firm. He was an author and frequent lecturer on office automation.
Automation Consultants, Inc. provided a subscription updating service for monthly newsletters, with pages containing reviews and descriptions, prices, and images of new equipment and appliances. The service began in 1955 to keep up-to-date on new machines and trends in electronic data processing.
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of five volumes of "Office Automation: Integrated and Electronic Data Processing," published in 1955 with updated content provided as newsletters/supplements between 1955 and 1960. The newsletters include definitions, history, and equipment available regarding office automation. The publication discusses applications to operations, new hardware, and forms. The current and potential uses of equipment are brought out along with the sociological effects.
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Language of Materials
English
Additional Description
Provenance
These materials belonged to Frank M. Verzuh (1918-2000), a computer scientist pioneer and instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1940 to 1960.
Finding Aid & Administrative Information
- Title:
- "Office Automation," handbook and newsletter supplements
- Author:
- Laurie Sather
- Date:
- 2022
- Description rules:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description:
- English
- Script of description:
- Latin
Repository Details
Repository Details
Part of the Manuscripts and Archives Repository
