Babbage's Calculating Engines: Being a Collection of Papers Relating to Them; Their History and Construction

by Charles Babbage

Book Overview

The famous and prolific nineteenth-century mathematician, engineer and inventor Charles Babbage (1791-1871) was an early pioneer of computing. He planned several calculating machines, but none was built in his lifetime. On his death his youngest son, Henry P. Babbage, was charged with the task of completing an unfinished volume of papers on the machines, which was finally published in 1889 and is reissued here. The papers, by a variety of authors,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108000967
• ISBN13: 9781108000963
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.3" x 11.7"