The Difference Engine
Title | The Difference Engine PDF eBook |
Author | William Gibson |
Publisher | Spectra |
Total Pages | 512 |
Release | 2011-07-26 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0345532589 |
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
Title | The Difference Engine PDF eBook |
Author | Doron Swade |
Publisher | Penguin Group |
Total Pages | 380 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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"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.
All Tomorrow's Parties
Title | All Tomorrow's Parties PDF eBook |
Author | William Gibson |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 356 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780425190449 |
Living a down-and-out existence in Tokyo, Colin Laney is determined to make his way back to the United States and to San Francisco, where, thanks to his special sensitivities about people and events, he believes a pivotal moment in human history will take place sometime in the future.
Babbage's Calculating Engines
Title | Babbage's Calculating Engines PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Prevost Babbage |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 424 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Calculators |
ISBN |
Charles Babbage
Title | Charles Babbage PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Hyman |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 348 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780691023779 |
A biography of inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage.
Sketch of the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage ... with notes by the translator. Extracted from the 'Scientific Memoirs,' etc. [The translator's notes signed: A.L.L. ie. Augusta Ada King, Countess Lovelace.]
Title | Sketch of the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage ... with notes by the translator. Extracted from the 'Scientific Memoirs,' etc. [The translator's notes signed: A.L.L. ie. Augusta Ada King, Countess Lovelace.] PDF eBook |
Author | Luigi Federico MENABREA (Count.) |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 124 |
Release | 1843 |
Genre | |
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Glory and Failure
Title | Glory and Failure PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Lindgren |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 424 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Calculators |
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