The Difference Engine

Swade, Doron

ISBN 10: 0670910201 / ISBN 13: 9780670910205

Published by Viking, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Difference Engine
• Publisher: Viking
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670910201
• ISBN 13: 9780670910205
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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