The calculating engine

Name: The calculating engine
Author: Charles Babbage

by Charles Babbage

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Publisher of text edition

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

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Calculators

About the author

Charles Babbage

1791–1871

A brilliant English mathematician and inventor, he imagined machines that could calculate automatically and laid out ideas that make him one of the key early figures in the story of computing. His writing ranges from science and engineering to industry, philosophy, and sharp observations about the modern world taking shape around him.

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