Book ID: CBB000302194

The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer (2001)

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Swade, Doron D. (Author)
Babbage, Charles (Author)


Viking


Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: x + 342 pp.; [16] plates, illus.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Published in London in 2000 under the title The Cogwheel Brain.


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Review Croarken, Mary (2004) Review of "The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 351). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Copeland, B. Jack
David McQuillan
Brian Coghlan
Reddy O'Regan
Trish Gonzalez
Ursula Martin
Journals
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Rutherford Journal: The New Zealand Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
History of Psychology
Historia Mathematica
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Viking
Springer-Verlag
Lonely Scholar Scientific Books
Broadway Books
Bodleian Library
Concepts
Computers and computing
Biographies
Computer science
Technology
Mathematics
History of Computing
People
Babbage, Charles
Turing, Alan Mathison
Jones, Richard
Zuckerberg, Mark
Wozniak, Steve
Whewell, William
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
Great Britain
England
Institutions
Smithsonian Institution
Cambridge University
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