The Difference Engine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Difference Engine write by William Gibson. This book was released on 2011-07-26. The Difference Engine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. And three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with history—and the future: Sybil Gerard—a fallen woman, politician’s tart, daughter of a Luddite agitator Edward “Leviathan” Mallory—explorer and paleontologist Laurence Oliphant—diplomat, mystic, and spy. Their adventure begins with the discovery of a box of punched Engine cards of unknown origin and purpose. Cards someone wants badly enough to kill for…. Part detective story, part historical thriller, The Difference Engine is the collaborative masterpiece by two of the most acclaimed science fiction authors writing today. Provocative, compelling, intensely imagined, it is a startling extension of Gibson’s and Sterling’s unique visions—and the beginning of movement we know today as “steampunk!”
The Difference Engine
The Difference Engine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Difference Engine write by Doron Swade. This book was released on 2002. The Difference Engine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Drawing on previously unused archival material, The Difference Engine 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 realized, 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."--BOOK JACKET.
The Makers Club
The Makers Club - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Makers Club write by Reimena Yee. This book was released on 2021. The Makers Club available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures write by Charles Babbage. This book was released on 1835. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Cogwheel Brain
The Cogwheel Brain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cogwheel Brain write by Doron Swade. This book was released on 2001. The Cogwheel Brain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1821, 30-year-old inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage was poring over a set of printed mathematical tables with his friend, the astronomer John Herschel. Finding error after error in the manually evaluated results, Babbage made an exclamation, the consequences of which would not only dominate the remaining 50 years of his life, but also lay the foundations for the modern computer industry: 'I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam!' A few days later, he set down a plan to build a machine that would carry out complex mathematical calculations without human intervention and, at least in theory, without human errors. The only technology to which he had access for solving the problem was the cogwheel escapement found inside clocks. Babbage saw that a machine constructed out of hundreds of escapements, cunningly and precisely linked, might be able to handle calculations mechanically. The story of his lifelong bid to construct such a machine is a triumph of human ingenuity, will and imagination.
