Charles Babbage and The Countess by Patricia Warrick
Description : Charles Babbage was thirty years old in 1821, as was his close friend, John Herschel, and in English intellectual circles they were both regarded as brilliant mathematicians. One day as Babbage worked in preparing logarithmic tables, a tedious and boring task, he commented to Herschel that he though...more..
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Pioneers of the Computer Age: from Charles Babbage to Steve Jobs by Abdul Montaqim
Description : This book is intended to provide an introduction to, and an overview of, the computer industry - or the "Computer Age" - as well as the key people who created the computerised world we live in... without too many technical details. The idea is to offer a snapshot of the industry at this point in tim...more..
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The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer by Doron Swade
Description : In 1821 an inventor and mathematician named Charles Babbage was reviewing a set of mathematical tables. After finding an excess of errors in the results, he exclaimed, "I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam." Thus began Babbage's lifelong enterprise to design and build a mechan...more..
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Charles Babbage: And the Engines of Perfection (Oxford Portraits in Science) by Bruce Collier
Description : Charles Babbage, "the grandfather of the modern computer," did not live to see even one of his calculating machines at work. A dazzling genius with vision extending far beyond the limitations of the Victorian age, Babbage successfully calculated a table of logarithms during his years at Cambridge Un...more..
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Charles Babbage: And the Engines of Perfection by Bruce Collier
Description : Charles Babbage, "the grandfather of the modern computer," did not live to see even one of his calculating machines at work. A dazzling genius with vision extending far beyond the limitations of the Victorian age, Babbage successfully calculated a table of logarithms during his years at Cambridge Un...more..
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Charles Babbage. by Smithsonian Institute
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Papers of John von Neumann on Computers and Computing Theory (Charles Babbage Institute Reprint) by John von Neumann
Description : This volume brings together for the first time John von Neumann's long-out-of-print articles on computer architecture, programming, large-scale computing, and automata theory. A number of significant papers in these areas that were not included in the multivolume John von Neumann. Collected Works...more..
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Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer by Anthony Hyman
Description : This book discusses the career of Charles Babbage (1791-1871), British advocate of the systematic use of science in industry and creator of machines that were precursors of the modern computer. Babbage used his immense personal charm and vitality in an attempt to change the thinking of contempora...more..
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Charles Babbage and the Story of the First Computer (Uncharted, Unexplored, and Unexplained) by Josepha Sherman
Description : In 1815, there weren’t any computers. Electricity hadn’t yet been discovered as a way to make things run. Calculating sums of numbers had to be done by hand. One mistake would mean adding everything up all over again. But English scientist Charles Babbage was planning to change all that. He plan...more..
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Charles Babbage: Father of the Computer by Dan Halacy
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