Charles Babbage and the engines of perfection /

Collier, Bruce.

Charles Babbage and the engines of perfection / Bruce Collier and James MacLachlan. - New York : Oxford University Press, c1998. - 123 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Oxford portraits in science . - Oxford portraits in science. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-120) and index.

Traces the life and work of the man whose nineteenth century inventions led to the development of the computer.

0195089979

98017054 /AC


Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871 --Juvenile literature.


Mathematicians--England--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Computers--History--Juvenile literature.

QA29.B2 / C65 1998

510/.92 B