Charles Babbage: Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (repost)
Charles Babbage: Passages from the Life of a Philosopher By Charles Babbage
Publisher: Rutg..ers Unive..rsity Press 1994 | 383 Pages | ISBN: 0813520665 | PDF | 29 MB
Publisher: Rutg..ers Unive..rsity Press 1994 | 383 Pages | ISBN: 0813520665 | PDF | 29 MB
This is an autobiography of Charles Babbage, who invented the mechanical computer in the early 1800s. He writes amusing anecdotes from his life, He shared a lot of fascinations with modern geeks, like cryptography, lockpicking, railroads, long distance communication, mechanical toys, and so forth. He held the Lucasian chair and was acquainted with Lord Wellington. He found street musicians terribly annoying.