Author: CAMPBELL-KELLY, MARTIN.
Title: Passages from the Life of a Philosopher: The Autobiography of Charles Babbage.
Description: London: Pickering & Chatto, 1991. 1851960406. "Charles Babbage is most often described as the father of the computer, inventing machines for calculating complex formulae which remain masterpieces of invention and technological genius. But his energy and innovative creativity were wide-ranging - among his many achievements were designs for an apparatus for walking on the sea and diving bells for exploring its depths, safety devices for lighthouses and ciphers for unlocking secret codes.Throughout his life Babbage challenged the conservatism of the scientific community, battled with the government of the day for subsidies to support research and development and struck out for a new status for science in the rapidly changing world of industrialised Britain." Pp.viii/383. Paperback. VG.

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