Charles Babbage and the engines of perfection / Bruce Collier and James MacLachlan.
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TextSeries: Oxford portraits in sciencePublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, c1998Description: 123 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0195089979Subject(s): Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871 -- Juvenile literature | Mathematicians -- England -- Biography -- Juvenile literature | Computers -- History -- Juvenile literatureDDC classification: 510/.92 | B LOC classification: QA29.B2 | C65 1998Summary: Traces the life and work of the man whose nineteenth century inventions led to the development of the computer.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-120) and index.
Traces the life and work of the man whose nineteenth century inventions led to the development of the computer.
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