The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer
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Published by Viking Adult, 2001
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- Title
- The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer
- Author
- Swade, Doron
- Publisher
- Viking Adult
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0670910201
- ISBN 13
- 9780670910205
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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