The Difference Engine : Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer (9780670910205)

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 executed by steam." His frustration was not simply at the grindingly tedious labor of checking manually evaluated tables, but at their daunting unreliability. Science, engineering, construction, banking, and insurance depended on tables for calculation. Ships navigating by the stars relied on them to find their positions at sea.

Product details

• Format Hardback | 352 pages
• Dimensions 135 x 206 x 30mm | 472g
• Publication date 10 Sep 2001
• Publisher Penguin Putnam
• Publication City/Country United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note Illustrations, unspecified
• ISBN10 0670910201
• ISBN13 9780670910205

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