Author: Anthony Hyman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691023779
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A biography of inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage.
Charles Babbage
Author: Anthony Hyman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691023779
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A biography of inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691023779
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A biography of inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage.
The Difference Engine
Author: Doron Swade
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
"Drawing on previously unused archival material, The Difference Engine is a tale of both Babbage's nineteenth-century quest to build a calculating engine and its twentieth-century sequel. For in 1991, Babbage's vision was finally realized, at least in part, by the completion at the Science Museum in London of the first full-sized Babbage engine, finished in time for the 200th anniversary of Babbage's birth. The two quests are mutually illuminating and are recounted here by the then Curator of Computing, Doron Swade - one of the main protagonists of the successful resumption of Babbage's extraordinary work."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
"Drawing on previously unused archival material, The Difference Engine is a tale of both Babbage's nineteenth-century quest to build a calculating engine and its twentieth-century sequel. For in 1991, Babbage's vision was finally realized, at least in part, by the completion at the Science Museum in London of the first full-sized Babbage engine, finished in time for the 200th anniversary of Babbage's birth. The two quests are mutually illuminating and are recounted here by the then Curator of Computing, Doron Swade - one of the main protagonists of the successful resumption of Babbage's extraordinary work."--BOOK JACKET.
The Works of Charles Babbage Vol 1
Author: Charles Babbage
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040236863
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
A set of 11 volumes which contains all the known works of Charles Babbage, who has been described as the "pioneer of the computer". His mathematical, scientific and engineering work is highly significant for its original approach to problem-solving and is reset for today's reader.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040236863
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
A set of 11 volumes which contains all the known works of Charles Babbage, who has been described as the "pioneer of the computer". His mathematical, scientific and engineering work is highly significant for its original approach to problem-solving and is reset for today's reader.
Science and Reform
Author: Charles Babbage
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521343114
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Charles Babbage was a key figure of a great era of British history. Best remembered for his pioneering Difference and Analytical Engines, forerunners of the modern computer, Babbage was also an active reformer of science and society.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521343114
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Charles Babbage was a key figure of a great era of British history. Best remembered for his pioneering Difference and Analytical Engines, forerunners of the modern computer, Babbage was also an active reformer of science and society.
Charles Babbage, Father of the Computer
Author: Daniel Stephen Halacy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inventors
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The life and inventions of Charles Babbage, who, along with numerous other creations, came up with the machine that evolved into today's computer.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inventors
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The life and inventions of Charles Babbage, who, along with numerous other creations, came up with the machine that evolved into today's computer.
The Mathematical Work of Charles Babbage
Author: J. M. Dubbey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521524766
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This book describes Babbage's work on the design and implementation of the difference and analytical engines.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521524766
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This book describes Babbage's work on the design and implementation of the difference and analytical engines.
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures
Author: Charles Babbage
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Machinery
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Machinery
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Charles Babbage
Author: Bruce Collier
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019514287X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Traces the life and work of the man whose nineteenth century inventions led to the development of the computer.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019514287X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Traces the life and work of the man whose nineteenth century inventions led to the development of the computer.
The Difference Engine
Author: William Gibson
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0440423627
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
The 20th anniversary edition of the classic steampunk novel With new commentary by the authors 1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine, and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. Three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with the future: Sybil Gerard—fallen woman, politician’s tart, daughter of a Luddite agitator; Edward “Leviathan” Mallory—explorer and paleontologist; Laurence Oliphant—diplomat, mystic, and spy. Their adventure begins with the discovery of a box of punched Engine cards of unknown origin and purpose. Cards someone wants badly enough to kill for. Part detective story, part historical thriller, The Difference Engine took the science fiction community by storm when it was first published twenty years ago. This special anniversary edition features an Introduction by Cory Doctorow and a collaborative essay from the authors looking back on their creation. Provocative, compelling, intensely imagined, this novel is poised to impress a whole new generation.
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0440423627
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
The 20th anniversary edition of the classic steampunk novel With new commentary by the authors 1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine, and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. Three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with the future: Sybil Gerard—fallen woman, politician’s tart, daughter of a Luddite agitator; Edward “Leviathan” Mallory—explorer and paleontologist; Laurence Oliphant—diplomat, mystic, and spy. Their adventure begins with the discovery of a box of punched Engine cards of unknown origin and purpose. Cards someone wants badly enough to kill for. Part detective story, part historical thriller, The Difference Engine took the science fiction community by storm when it was first published twenty years ago. This special anniversary edition features an Introduction by Cory Doctorow and a collaborative essay from the authors looking back on their creation. Provocative, compelling, intensely imagined, this novel is poised to impress a whole new generation.
Charles Babbage and His Calculating Engines
Author: Charles Babbage
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calculators
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Charles Babbage, pioneer in the field of computing machines, is well known today as the development and dissemination of computers has made it clear that he was a man ahead of his time. For a large part of his life Babbage was chiefly interested in the calculating engine, but from his writings it is apparent that in addition to understanding the principles of the construction of computers, he had a clear insight into their potential applications and the way to use them. He was also a pioneer in the field of operations research, was interested in an amazingly broad range of subjects, and was one of the first people to obtain a government grant in support of research! The editors have written an introduction which serves as a coordinating preamble to some chapters from Babbage's "Passages from the Life of a Philosopher" along with selections from "Calculating Engines" and assorted miscellaneous papers, blending everything to produce a book which can be read with the ease of a novel and is certainly no less entertaining.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calculators
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Charles Babbage, pioneer in the field of computing machines, is well known today as the development and dissemination of computers has made it clear that he was a man ahead of his time. For a large part of his life Babbage was chiefly interested in the calculating engine, but from his writings it is apparent that in addition to understanding the principles of the construction of computers, he had a clear insight into their potential applications and the way to use them. He was also a pioneer in the field of operations research, was interested in an amazingly broad range of subjects, and was one of the first people to obtain a government grant in support of research! The editors have written an introduction which serves as a coordinating preamble to some chapters from Babbage's "Passages from the Life of a Philosopher" along with selections from "Calculating Engines" and assorted miscellaneous papers, blending everything to produce a book which can be read with the ease of a novel and is certainly no less entertaining.