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Vivid biography of Charles Babbage (1791-1871), the British scientist who 'invented the computer too soon'. Subtitle: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer.
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Drawing on hitherto unused archival material, The Cogwheel Brain is a tale of both Babbage's nineteenth-century quest to build a calculating engine, and its twentieth-century sequel. For in 1991, Babbage's vision was finally realised, at least in part, by the completion at the Science Museum in London of the first full-sized Babbage engine, finished in time for the 200th anniversary of Babbage's birth. The two quests are mutually illuminating and are recounted here by the then Curator of Computing, Doron Swade - one of the main protagonists of the successful resumption of Babbage's extraordinary work.
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