| Description |
331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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text rdacontent |
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unmediated rdamedia |
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volume rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Carrying tens: Pascal, Morland, and the challenge of machine calculation -- First carry : Babbage and Clement mechanize table making -- Artisans and their philosophers: Leibniz and Hooke coordinate minds, metal, and wood -- Second carry : Babbage gets funded -- Improvement for profit: calculating machines and the prehistory of intellectual property -- Third carry : Babbage claims his property -- Reinventing the wheel: emulation in the European enlightenment -- Fourth carry : Babbage confronts prior art -- Teething problems: Charles Stanhope and the coordination of technical knowledge from Geneva to Kent -- Fifth carry : Babbage's collaborators emulate -- Calculating machines, creativity, and humility from Leibniz to Turning -- Final carry : Epilogue. |
| Subject |
Calculators -- History.
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Computers -- History.
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Technology -- History.
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Calculators. (OCoLC)fst00844105
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Computers. (OCoLC)fst00872776
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Technology. (OCoLC)fst01145078
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9780226411460 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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022641146X (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780226411637 (e-book) |
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022641163X (e-book) |
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