The first biography of the "father of the computer" in nearly 20 years. Charles Babbage was a visionary inventor, mathematician, engineer, and philosopher and the center of the Victorian London social world. A fascinating narrative of the extraordinary mind behind the computer as we know it, this is also the first book to fully explore the iconic inventor's work in the context of its brave moment of speculative technology--very much the roots of Silicon Valley
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