The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer

Swade, Doron

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ISBN 10: 0670910201 ISBN 13: 9780670910205

Published by Viking, New York, 2000,, 2000

Language: English

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The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer

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Viking, New York, 2000,

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2000

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0670910201

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9780670910205

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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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