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| computer history charles babbage: Charles Babbage Anthony Hyman, 1985 A biography of inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage. |
| computer history charles babbage: On the Principles and Development of the Calculator and Other Seminal Writings Charles Babbage, 2013-10-17 Charles Babbage (1792–1871) articulated the principles behind modern computing machines. This compilation of his writings, plus those of several of his contemporaries, illuminates the early history of the calculator. |
| computer history charles babbage: The Difference Engine Doron Swade, 2002 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. |
| computer history charles babbage: Computer Martin Campbell-Kelly, William Aspray, Nathan Ensmenger, Jeffrey R. Yost, 2018-04-20 Computer: A History of the Information Machine traces the history of the computer and shows how business and government were the first to explore its unlimited, information-processing potential. Old-fashioned entrepreneurship combined with scientific know-how inspired now famous computer engineers to create the technology that became IBM. Wartime needs drove the giant ENIAC, the first fully electronic computer. Later, the PC enabled modes of computing that liberated people from room-sized, mainframe computers. This third edition provides updated analysis on software and computer networking, including new material on the programming profession, social networking, and mobile computing. It expands its focus on the IT industry with fresh discussion on the rise of Google and Facebook as well as how powerful applications are changing the way we work, consume, learn, and socialize. Computer is an insightful look at the pace of technological advancement and the seamless way computers are integrated into the modern world. Through comprehensive history and accessible writing, Computer is perfect for courses on computer history, technology history, and information and society, as well as a range of courses in the fields of computer science, communications, sociology, and management. |
| computer history charles babbage: The Difference Engine William Gibson, 2011-07-26 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!” |
| computer history charles babbage: Charles Babbage Bruce Collier, James MacLachlan, 2000-09-28 Traces the life and work of the man whose nineteenth century inventions led to the development of the computer. |
| computer history charles babbage: Ada Lovelace Christopher Hollings, Ursula Martin, Adrian Clifford Rice, 2018 Ada, Countess of Lovelace and daughter of Romantic poet Lord Byron, is sometimes referred to as the world's first computer programmer. But how did a young woman in the nineteenth century without a formal education become a pioneer of computer science? Drawing on previously unpublished archival material, including a remarkable correspondence course with eminent mathematician Augustus De Morgan, this book explores Ada Lovelace's development from her precocious childhood into a gifted, perceptive and knowledgeable mathematician who, alongside Mary Somerville, Michael Faraday and Charles Dickens, became part of Victorian London's social and scientific elite. Featuring images of the 'first programme' together with mathematical models and contemporary illustrations, the authors show how, despite her relatively short life and with astonishing prescience, Ada Lovelace explored key mathematical questions to understand the principles behind modern computing.--Page 4 de la couverture. |
| computer history charles babbage: Science and Reform Charles Babbage, 1989-05-18 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. |
| computer history charles babbage: Charles Babbage, Father of the Computer Daniel Stephen Halacy, 1970 The life and inventions of Charles Babbage, who, along with numerous other creations, came up with the machine that evolved into today's computer. |
| computer history charles babbage: Passages from the Life of a Philosopher Charles Babbage, 2022-09-04 DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of Passages from the Life of a Philosopher by Charles Babbage. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature. |
| computer history charles babbage: Computer Martin Campbell-Kelly, William F. Aspray, Jeffrey R. Yost, Honghong Tinn, Gerardo Con Díaz, 2023-06-19 This volume provides a history of the computer which now comes properly up to the ubiquitous age, with new chapters that look at globalization, platformitization and regulation, allowing readers to engage with the more recent takeover by computers in their historical perspective. With the growing ubiquity of computers, the subject is one of interest to many students and this will feature in history of science and technology courses, and world history courses as well as ones specifically on computing. Books on the history of computing tend to be quite technically or business focused, this covers the social and cultural history as well. |
| computer history charles babbage: The Works of Charles Babbage Vol 1 Charles Babbage, Martin Campbell-Kelly, 1989-03 A set of 11 volumes which contains all the known works of Charles Babbage, who has been described as the pioneer of the computer. His mathematical, scientific and engineering work is highly significant for its original approach to problem-solving and is reset for today's reader. |
| computer history charles babbage: On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures Charles Babbage, 1832 |
| computer history charles babbage: Jacquard's Web James Essinger, 2007-03-29 Traces the 200-year evolution of the principles of Jacquard's knitting machines to the information revolution of the twentieth century and the desk-top computer of today. --From cover (p. 4). |
| computer history charles babbage: The Mathematical Work of Charles Babbage J. M. Dubbey, John Michael Dubbey, 2004-02-12 This book describes Babbage's work on the design and implementation of the difference and analytical engines. |
| computer history charles babbage: Pioneers of the Computer Age: from Charles Babbage to Steve Jobs Abdul Montaqim, 2012-04-08 This book is intended to provide an introduction to, and an overview of, the computer industry - or the Computer Age - as well as the key people who created the computerised world we live in... without too many technical details. The idea is to offer a snapshot of the industry at this point in time and find out how it got where it is today, highlighting its most notable inventions and innovations and the pioneering people who are responsible for them.Extract: The original human computers used tools to help them calculate. The most well known calculating tool from antiquity is the abacus, which was usually made from wood and featured a frame containing sticks along which beads could be moved. It is believed that the abacus was invented some time between 2700-2300 BC, in Sumeria, and its forerunner was probably a system whereby stones or beads were moved along grooves in the sand or ground, or tablets of wood, stone or metal. |
| computer history charles babbage: Memoir of the Life and Labours of the Late Charles Babbage Erwin Tomash, 1987-12-04 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. |
| computer history charles babbage: Glory and Failure Michael Lindgren, 1987 |
| computer history charles babbage: It Began with Babbage Subrata Dasgupta, 2014-03 A complete and accessible history of computer science, beginning with Charles Babbage in 1819. |
| computer history charles babbage: Computers Eric G. Swedin, David L. Ferro, 2007-12-03 A great technological and scientific innovation of the last half of the 20th century, the computer has revolutionised how we organise information, how we communicate with each other, and the way we think about the human mind. This book offers a short history of this dynamic technology, covering its central themes since ancient times. |
| computer history charles babbage: On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures Charles Babbage, 2019-09-14 Charles Babbage, born December 26, 1791 and died October 18, 1871 in London, is a mathematician, inventor, British visionary of the nineteenth century who was one of the leading precursors of computer science. He was the first to state the principle of a computer. It was in 1834, during the development of a calculating machine for the calculation and printing of mathematical tables (the difference machine) that he had the idea of incorporating cards of the Jacquard trade, The sequential reading would give instructions and data to his machine, and thus imagined the mechanical ancestor of computers today. He never finished his analytical machine, but spent the rest of his life conceiving it in the smallest details and constructing a prototype. One of his sons built the central unit (the mill) and the printer in 1888 and made a successful demonstration of table calculation at the Royal Astronomical Academy in 19081. It was between 1847 and 1849 that Charles Babbage undertook to use the technological advances of his analytical machine to design the plans of a second no. 2 machine with equal specifications requiring three times fewer parts than the previous one. In 1991, from these plans, it was possible to reconstruct a part of this machine which works perfectly using the techniques that were available in the nineteenth century, which shows that it could have been built during the lifetime of Charles Babbage. Preface The present volume may be considered as one of the consequences that have resulted from the calculating engine, the construction of which I have been so long superintending. Having been induced, during the last ten years, to visit a considerable number of workshops and factories, both in England and on the Continent, for the purpose of endeavouring to make myself acquainted with the various resources of mechanical art, I was insensibly led to apply to them those principles of generalization to which my other pursuits had naturally given rise. The increased number of curious processes and interesting facts which thus came under my attention, as well as of the reflections which they suggested, induced me to believe that the publication of some of them might be of use to persons who propose to bestow their attention on those enquiries which I have only incidentally considered. With this view it was my intention to have delivered the present work in the form of a course of lectures at Cambridge; an intention which I was subsequently induced to alter. The substance of a considerable portion of it has, however, appeared among the preliminary chapters of the mechanical part of the Encyclopedia Metropolitana. I have not attempted to offer a complete enumeration of all the mechanical principles which regulate the application of machinery to arts and manufactures |
| computer history charles babbage: The Cogwheel Brain Doron Swade, 2001 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. |
| computer history charles babbage: Computer Martin Campbell-Kelly, William Aspray, Nathan Ensmenger, Jeffrey R. Yost, 2013-07-09 Computer: A History of the Information Machine traces the history of the computer and shows how business and government were the first to explore its unlimited, information-processing potential. Old-fashioned entrepreneurship combined with scientific know-how inspired now famous computer engineers to create the technology that became IBM. Wartime needs drove the giant ENIAC, the first fully electronic computer. Later, the PC enabled modes of computing that liberated people from room-sized, mainframe computers. This third edition provides updated analysis on software and computer networking, including new material on the programming profession, social networking, and mobile computing. It expands its focus on the IT industry with fresh discussion on the rise of Google and Facebook as well as how powerful applications are changing the way we work, consume, learn, and socialize. Computer is an insightful look at the pace of technological advancement and the seamless way computers are integrated into the modern world. Through comprehensive history and accessible writing, Computer is perfect for courses on computer history, technology history, and information and society, as well as a range of courses in the fields of computer science, communications, sociology, and management. |
| computer history charles babbage: Babbage's Calculating Engines Charles Babbage, 2010-05-20 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, were collected from journals including The Philosophical Magazine, The Edinburgh Review and Scientific Memoirs. They relate to the construction and potential application of Charles Babbage's calculating engines, notably the Difference Engine and the more complex Analytical Engine, which was to be programmed using punched cards. The book also includes correspondence with members of scientific societies, as well as proceedings, catalogues and drawings. Included is a complete catalogue of the drawings of the Analytical Engine. |
| computer history charles babbage: Ada and the Engine Lauren Gunderson, 2018-06-18 As the British Industrial Revolution dawns, young Ada Byron Lovelace (daughter of the flamboyant and notorious Lord Byron) sees the boundless creative potential in the “analytic engines” of her friend and soul mate Charles Babbage, inventor of the first mechanical computer. Ada envisions a whole new world where art and information converge—a world she might not live to see. A music-laced story of love, friendship, and the edgiest dreams of the future. Jane Austen meets Steve Jobs in this poignant pre-tech romance heralding the computer age. |
| computer history charles babbage: Faster Than Thought Bertram Vivian Bowden (Baron Bowden), 1953 An early introduction to electronic computing. Containing specific information on British computer investigations of the 1940's and '50's. |
| computer history charles babbage: Functional Programming: A PragPub Anthology Michael Swaine, 2017-07-20 Explore functional programming and discover new ways of thinking about code. You know you need to master functional programming, but learning one functional language is only the start. In this book, through articles drawn from PragPub magazine and articles written specifically for this book, you'll explore functional thinking and functional style and idioms across languages. Led by expert guides, you'll discover the distinct strengths and approaches of Clojure, Elixir, Haskell, Scala, and Swift and learn which best suits your needs. Contributing authors: Rich Hickey, Stuart Halloway, Aaron Bedra, Michael Bevilacqua-Linn, Venkat Subramaniam, Paul Callaghan, Jose Valim, Dave Thomas, Natasha Murashev, Tony Hillerson, Josh Chisholm, and Bruce Tate. Functional programming is on the rise because it lets you write simpler, cleaner code, and its emphasis on immutability makes it ideal for maximizing the benefits of multiple cores and distributed solutions. So far nobody's invented the perfect functional language - each has its unique strengths. In Functional Programming: A PragPub Anthology, you'll investigate the philosophies, tools, and idioms of five different functional programming languages. See how Swift, the development language for iOS, encourages you to build highly scalable apps using functional techniques like map and reduce. Discover how Scala allows you to transition gently but deeply into functional programming without losing the benefits of the JVM, while with Lisp-based Clojure, you can plunge fully into the functional style. Learn about advanced functional concepts in Haskell, a pure functional language making powerful use of the type system with type inference and type classes. And see how functional programming is becoming more elegant and friendly with Elixir, a new functional language built on the powerful Erlang base.The industry has been embracing functional programming more and more, driven by the need for concurrency and parallelism. This collection of articles will lead you to mastering the functional approach to problem solving. So put on your explorer's hat and prepare to be surprised. The goal of exploration is always discovery. What You Need: Familiarity with one or more programming languages. |
| computer history charles babbage: The Works of Charles Babbage Vol 11 Charles Babbage, Martin Campbell-Kelly, 1989-03 A set of 11 volumes which contains all the known works of Charles Babbage, who has been described as the pioneer of the computer. His mathematical, scientific and engineering work is highly significant for its original approach to problem-solving and is reset for today's reader. |
| computer history charles babbage: The Works of Charles Babbage Vol 9 Charles Babbage, Martin Campbell-Kelly, 1989-03 A set of 11 volumes which contains all the known works of Charles Babbage, who has been described as the pioneer of the computer. His mathematical, scientific and engineering work is highly significant for its original approach to problem-solving and is reset for today's reader. |
| computer history charles babbage: ENIAC in Action Thomas Haigh, Peter Mark Priestley, Crispin Rope, 2016-02-05 This work explores the conception, design, construction, use, and afterlife of ENIAC, the first general purpose digital electronic computer. |
| computer history charles babbage: The Calculating Machines (Die Rechenmaschinen) Ernst Martin, 1992 This work is about mechanical desktop calculators prior to World War II. |
| computer history charles babbage: Babbage's Dream Neil Aitken, 2016-12-15 |
| computer history charles babbage: The Making of the Micro Christopher Riche Evans, 1981 Historical Account of the Development of the Computer, from the Counting Frame to Current High-Speed Computers |
| computer history charles babbage: The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise Charles Babbage, 1837 |
| computer history charles babbage: The Works of Charles Babbage Charles Babbage, 1989 |
| computer history charles babbage: The Annotated Turing Charles Petzold, 2008-06-16 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. |
| computer history charles babbage: Gender Codes Thomas J. Misa, 2011-09-14 The computing profession faces a serious gender crisis. Today, fewer women enter computing than anytime in the past 25 years. This book provides an unprecedented look at the history of women and men in computing, detailing how the computing profession emerged and matured, and how the field became male coded. Women's experiences working in offices, education, libraries, programming, and government are examined for clues on how and where women succeeded—and where they struggled. It also provides a unique international dimension with studies examining the U.S., Great Britain, Germany, Norway, and Greece. Scholars in history, gender/women's studies, and science and technology studies, as well as department chairs and hiring directors will find this volume illuminating. |
| computer history charles babbage: Scientists and Inventors , 1998 Alphabetical articles profile the life and work of notable scientists and inventors from antiquity to the present, beginning with Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz and concluding with the Wright Brothers. |
| computer history charles babbage: The Jacquard Machine Analyzed and Explained E. A. Posselt, 2022-05-29 The Jacquard Machine Analyzed and Explained is a work by Emanuel Anthony Posselt. A Jacquard machine is a device fitted to a loom that simplifies the process of manufacturing textiles. |
| computer history charles babbage: A Chapter on Street Nuisances Charles Babbage, 1864 |
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