The difference engine : Charles Babbage and the quest to build the first computer

Author(s)

• Swade, Doron

Bibliographic Information

The difference engine : Charles Babbage and the quest to build the first computer

Doron Swade

Viking, 2001

1st American ed

Note

"Originally published in in Great Britain by Little, Brown and Company as The Cogwheel Brain, c2000"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-331) and index

• NCID: BB16543844
• ISBN:
  • 0670910201
• LCCN: 00068643
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: x, 342 p., [16] p. of plates
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QA75
  • DC21 : 681/.145
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Calculators -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871