Author : Daniel Stephen Halacy
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 12,59 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Inventors
ISBN :
The life and inventions of Charles Babbage, who, along with numerous other creations, came up with the machine that evolved into today's computer.
Author : Doron Swade
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 15,29 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
"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.
Author : Anthony Hyman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,68 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691023779
A biography of inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage.
Author : Charles Babbage
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 19,46 MB
Release : 1989-05-18
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780521343114
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.
Author : Diane Stanley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 26,92 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1481452495
"A fascinating look at Ada Lovelace, the pioneering computer programmer and the daughter of the poet Lord Byron." --
Author : William Gibson
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 38,67 MB
Release : 2011-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345532589
1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. And three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with history—and the future: Sybil Gerard—a 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 is the collaborative masterpiece by two of the most acclaimed science fiction authors writing today. Provocative, compelling, intensely imagined, it is a startling extension of Gibson’s and Sterling’s unique visions—and the beginning of movement we know today as “steampunk!”
Author : Charles Petzold
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 48,57 MB
Release : 2008-06-16
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0470229055
Programming Legend Charles Petzold unlocks the secrets of the extraordinary and prescient 1936 paper by Alan M. Turing Mathematician Alan Turing invented an imaginary computer known as the Turing Machine; in an age before computers, he explored the concept of what it meant to be computable, creating the field of computability theory in the process, a foundation of present-day computer programming. The book expands Turing’s original 36-page paper with additional background chapters and extensive annotations; the author elaborates on and clarifies many of Turing’s statements, making the original difficult-to-read document accessible to present day programmers, computer science majors, math geeks, and others. Interwoven into the narrative are the highlights of Turing’s own life: his years at Cambridge and Princeton, his secret work in cryptanalysis during World War II, his involvement in seminal computer projects, his speculations about artificial intelligence, his arrest and prosecution for the crime of "gross indecency," and his early death by apparent suicide at the age of 41.
Author : Doron Swade
Publisher :
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 30,40 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Calculators
ISBN : 9780349112398
In 1821, 30-year-old inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage was poring over a set of printed mathematical tables with his friend, the astronomer John Herschel. Finding error after error in the manually evaluated results, Babbage made an exclamation, the consequences of which would not only dominate the remaining 50 years of his life, but also lay the foundations for the modern computer industry: 'I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam!' A few days later, he set down a plan to build a machine that would carry out complex mathematical calculations without human intervention and, at least in theory, without human errors. The only technology to which he had access for solving the problem was the cogwheel escapement found inside clocks. Babbage saw that a machine constructed out of hundreds of escapements, cunningly and precisely linked, might be able to handle calculations mechanically. The story of his lifelong bid to construct such a machine is a triumph of human ingenuity, will and imagination.
Author : Erwin Tomash
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,98 MB
Release : 1987-12-04
Category :
ISBN : 9780262515252
Written but never published during his lifetime, this memoir of the founding father of computing is an indispensable primary source of information about Babbage's personal character and work. It brings to light his astonishingly wide range of interests, from mathematics to political economy and social reform, and dispels the myth of an "irascible" and "eccentric" personality, helping to clarify Babbage's position in the history of science.Buxton's memoir was written between 1872 and 1880 and is volume 13 in the Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series for the History of Computing.
Author : Neil Champion
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 30,13 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781575723679
Examines the life and contributions of the English mathematician and inventor, whose work with calculating machines caused him to be called the father of the modern computer.
