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  The difference engine: Charles Babbage and the quest to build the first computer
Swade D., Viking Press, New York, NY, 2001. 342 pp.  Type: Book (9780670910205)

In July 1991, the world celebrated (about six months early) the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Babbage with a conference at the University of Cambridge and a spectacular exhibit opening at the Science Museum in South Kensington, ...

Apr 18 2002
 
Davis M. Type: Article

Herman Berg, an independent investigator of the history of computing, has been distressed since 1984 because he believes he was unjustly deprived of the credit of locating the original version of a historically important letter, well k...

Feb 1 1995
  Science and reform (selected works of Charles Babbage)
Hyman A., Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 1989.  Type: Book (9789780521343114)

This book includes papers concerning the difference engine and the analytical engine as well as many other interesting works by Charles Babbage. The entire collection gives the reader a feel for the atmosphere in which Babbage designed...

Apr 1 1990
 
 
 
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