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The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer.(Review)
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The Difference Engine: Charles
Babbage and the Quest to
Build the First Computer
DORON SWADE
Viking
352 pages
Swade's precise book is the account of a precocious Victorian dream and that dream's realization. It tells the story of mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage, who, in 1821, came up with the idea for a machine that could do computation, putting an end to mistakes and forever eliminating the tedium of double-checking figures. By 1822 Babbage had conceived and designed a mechanical computer: an enormous, crank-driven monstrosity of wheels and rods, ...
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