The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer
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Published by Penguin Group USA, 2002
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- Title
- The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer
- Author
- Swade, Doron
- Publisher
- Penguin Group USA
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0142001449
- ISBN 13
- 9780142001448
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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About the Author
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.
Doron Swade is Assistant Director and Head of Collections at the Science Museum in London.
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