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Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
United Kingdom: Adam and Charles Black, 1834.
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Laura Natal Rodrigues (Images generously made available by Hathi Trust Digital Library)
Release date
2023-07-28
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Public domain in the USA.
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About the author
Charles Babbage
1791–1871
A brilliant Victorian thinker, he imagined machines that could calculate automatically long before electronic computers existed. His designs for the Difference Engine and Analytical Engine made him one of the key early figures in the history of computing.
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