Book ID: CBB000031246

Glory and failure: The difference engines of Johannes Müller, Charles Babbage, and Georg and Edvard Scheutz. Translation by Craig G. McKay (1987)

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Description Also published: Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990.


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Authors & Contributors
Bromley, Allan G.
Babbage, Charles
Huskey, Velma R.
Huskey, Harry D.
Merzbach, Uta C.
Dubbey, J. M.
Journals
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Historia Mathematica
Technology and Culture
History of Political Economy
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Platinum Metals Review
Publishers
Tomash
Smithsonian Institution Press
Oxford University Press
American Mathematical Society
Broadway Books
Cork University Press
Concepts
Computers and computing
Biographies
Algebra
Technology
Mathematics
Mathematical analysis
People
Babbage, Charles
Scheutz, Georg
Herschel, John Frederick William
Lovelace, Ada, Countess of
Peacock, George
Scheutz, Edvard
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
Places
British Isles
Great Britain
Turin (Italy)
Italy
Institutions
University of Chicago
Cambridge University
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