And the Engines of Perfection
by
Bruce Collier, James MacLachlan
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 1999
Charles Babbage, "the grandfather of the modern computer," did not live to see even one of his calculating machines at work. A dazzling genius with vision extending far beyond the limitations of the Victorian age, Babbage successfully calculated a table of logarithms during his years at Cambridge University,...