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Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

by Charles Babbage

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. The rambling autobiography of a fascinating man.

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English

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English

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1864

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Charles Babbage

United States

Charles Babbage was an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer. Babbage is considered by so...

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