The Difference Engine

Author : William Gibson
Publisher : Spectra
ISBN 13 : 0345532589
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Difference Engine written by William Gibson and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!”

Author : Doron Swade
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Difference Engine written by Doron Swade and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2002 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Author : William Gibson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780425190449
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Tomorrow's Parties written by William Gibson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Henry Prevost Babbage
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Babbage's Calculating Engines written by Henry Prevost Babbage and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anthony Hyman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691023779
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charles Babbage written by Anthony Hyman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage.

Author : Luigi Federico MENABREA (Count.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 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.] written by Luigi Federico MENABREA (Count.) and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Lindgren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glory and Failure written by Michael Lindgren and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Gibson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101986948
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agency written by William Gibson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “ONE OF THE MOST VISIONARY, ORIGINAL, AND QUIETLY INFLUENTIAL WRITERS CURRENTLY WORKING”* returns with a sharply imagined follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The Peripheral. William Gibson has trained his eye on the future for decades, ever since coining the term “cyberspace” and then popularizing it in his classic speculative novel Neuromancer in the early 1980s. Cory Doctorow raved that The Peripheral is “spectacular, a piece of trenchant, far-future speculation that features all the eyeball kicks of Neuromancer.” Now Gibson is back with Agency—a science fiction thriller heavily influenced by our most current events. Verity Jane, gifted app whisperer, takes a job as the beta tester for a new product: a digital assistant, accessed through a pair of ordinary-looking glasses. “Eunice,” the disarmingly human AI in the glasses, manifests a face, a fragmentary past, and a canny grasp of combat strategy. Realizing that her cryptic new employers don’t yet know how powerful and valuable Eunice is, Verity instinctively decides that it’s best they don’t. Meanwhile, a century ahead in London, in a different time line entirely, Wilf Netherton works amid plutocrats and plunderers, survivors of the slow and steady apocalypse known as the jackpot. His boss, the enigmatic Ainsley Lowbeer, can look into alternate pasts and nudge their ultimate directions. Verity and Eunice are her current project. Wilf can see what Verity and Eunice can’t: their own version of the jackpot, just around the corner, and the roles they both may play in it. *The Boston Globe

Author : Doron Swade
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780349112398
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cogwheel Brain written by Doron Swade and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1821, 30-year-old inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage was poring over a set of printed mathematical tables with his friend, the astronomer John Herschel. Finding error after error in the manually evaluated results, Babbage made an exclamation, the consequences of which would not only dominate the remaining 50 years of his life, but also lay the foundations for the modern computer industry: 'I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam!' A few days later, he set down a plan to build a machine that would carry out complex mathematical calculations without human intervention and, at least in theory, without human errors. The only technology to which he had access for solving the problem was the cogwheel escapement found inside clocks. Babbage saw that a machine constructed out of hundreds of escapements, cunningly and precisely linked, might be able to handle calculations mechanically. The story of his lifelong bid to construct such a machine is a triumph of human ingenuity, will and imagination.

Author : Reimena Yee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789811498671
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Makers Club written by Reimena Yee and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: