The difference engine; Charles Babbage and the quest to build the first computer
by [BABBAGE] SWADE, Doron
Price: $11.00
- Bookseller: Jeff Weber Rare Books
- Seller Inventory #: S6038
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 19910670910201
- ISBN 13: 19910670910207
- Publisher: Viking
- Place: (New York, etc.):
- Date published: 2000
Book Description
(New York, etc.):: Viking. 2000. hardcover. 1. 8vo. x, 342 pp. 42 figs. on plates, bibliog., index. Quarter cloth, dust- jacket. Fine.. . The remarkable story of how Babbage tried to build a calculating engine, the precursor to the modern day computer, which was (in fact) finally built to his designs in 1991. ISBN: 0670910201
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