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

Swade, Doron

ISBN 10: 0670910201 / ISBN 13: 9780670910205

Published by Viking, New York, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Difference Engine, Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer
• Publisher: Viking, New York
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670910201
• ISBN 13: 9780670910205
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography
  • History

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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.