Title: The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Publication Date: 2002
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0142001449
ISBN 13: 9780142001448
Binding: paperback
Condition: New
Weight: 9 ounces

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A portrait of early nineteenth-century mathematician Charles Babbage describes his efforts to construct the first computing machine more than one century before the invention of the modern computer. Reprint.

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Doron Swade, assistant director and head of collections at the Science Museum in London, is an engineer, historian of technology, and a leading authority on the life and work of Charles Babbage.

Doron Swade is Assistant Director and Head of Collections at the Science Museum in London.

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