Books written by Charles Babbage
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The Works of Charles Babbage
The Works of Charles Babbage
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On the Principles and Development of the Calculator and Other Seminal Writings
In pursuance of this principle, I was deputed by the Council to invite Mr. George Stephenson to become the President of the Mechanical Section. In case he should decline it, I was then empowered to offer it to Mr. Buddle, ...
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Passages From the Life of A Phiilosopher
If any herald suppose that there may be such a presumption, I think it must arise from his confounding Cain with ... of the history of my family is limited by the unfortunate omission of my name from the roll of William's followers.
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The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer
"In 1821 an inventor and mathematician, Charles Babbage, was poring over a set of mathematical tables. Finding error after error Babbage exclaimed, "I wish to God these calculations had been...
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Babbage's Calculating Engines
These assembled papers discuss Babbage's Difference Engine, which he invented in 1821 to solve the practical problem of finding a means to reliably compute the many tables needed for navigation, and his Analytical Engine, which anticipated ...
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Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage
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.