Cultural Babbage: Technology and the History of Culture

by Francis Spufford

Book Overview

Show the world you have invented a machine that can slice potatoes and someone will ask if it can slice a pineapple (so said Charles Babbage). In thirteen unorthodox pieces, biographers, historians,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571172431
• ISBN13: 9780571172436
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 7.8"