Title: The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer
Publisher: Viking Adult
Publication Date: 2001
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0670910201
ISBN 13: 9780670910205
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: new

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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. 22,500 first printing.

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

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