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.
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Doron Swade is Assistant Director and Head of Collections at the Science Museum in London.
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The Difference Engine : Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer
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Penguin Publishing Group, 2001
ISBN 10: 0670910201
ISBN 13: 9780670910205
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The Difference Engine : Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer
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