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The Cogwheel Brain: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer
by Swade, Doron
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0316648477
- ISBN 13
- 9780316648479
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
London: Little, Brown and Company, 2000 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Forest green boards, gold foil titles on spine, black endpapers, x, 342 pp, 6 ff b & w plates, bibliography, index. Half a dozen leaves dog-eared, else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "Drawing on hitherto unused archival material, The Cogwheel Brain 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 realised, 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...." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Very Good/Fine. 20½ X 13½ cm.
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- Bookseller
- Twin City Antiquarian Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TECS00137
- Title
- The Cogwheel Brain: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer
- Author
- Swade, Doron
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0316648477
- ISBN 13
- 9780316648479
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- Technical Computer Science History of Technology
- X weight
- 32 oz
- Size
- 20½ X 13½ cm
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About Twin City Antiquarian Books
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