num_pages: 624
description: A portrait of early nineteenth-century mathematician Charles Babbage describes his efforts to construct the first computing machine more than one century before the invention of the modern computer. Reprint.
language: English
title: The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer
titlecomplete: The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer
characters: Charles Babbage
genres: Computer Science, Mathematics, History, Research, Technology, Biography, Science, 19th Century, Computers, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 288
publisher: Penguin Group USA