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Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage
Charles BabbageCharles Babbage was a key figure of a great era of British history. Best remembered for his pioneering Difference and Analytical Engines, forerunners of the modern computer, Babbage was also an active reformer of science and society.
Charles Babbage and his calculating engines
Doron SwadeThis book has been prepared as part of the 1991 Babbage celebration, an occasion when the Science Museum's own Babbage artefacts and archives were supplements with additional material from overseas for a special Bicentenary Exhibition.
Charles Babbage, father of the computer
Daniel Stephen HalacyThe life and inventions of Charles Babbage, who, along with numerous other creations, came up with the machine that evolved into today's computer.
Charles Babbage: And the Engines of Perfection
Bruce CollierCharles Babbage, "the grandfather of the modern computer," did not live to see even one of his calculating machines at work.
Charles Babbage on the Principles and Development of the ...
Charles BabbageThis compilation of his writings, in addition to those of several of his contemporaries, illuminates the work that led to the development of the calculator. Essential reference for anyone interested in the history of computing technology.
Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer
Anthony HymanThis book discusses the career of Charles Babbage (1791-1871), British advocate of the systematic use of science in industry and creator of machines that were precursors of the modern computer.
The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to ...
Doron SwadeTHE DIFFERENCE ENGINE Doron Swade is Assistant Director and Head of Collections at the Science Museum in London. He is an engineer and a historian of technology, and a leading authority on the life and work of Charles Babbage.
Genius Genes: How Asperger Talents Changed the World
Michael FitzgeraldSubjects range from the well-known to some more obscure, including political/military figures (Thomas Jefferson, Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson, Bernard Law Montgomery and Charles de Gaulle), mathematicians (Archimedes, Charles Babbage, Paul ...
Re-Visioning Myth: Modern and Contemporary Drama by Women
Frances BabbageFrom tracing the persistence of classical myths in contemporary culture and the significance of this in shaping gendered identities and opportunities, through to analysis of individual plays and productions, Babbage reveals how myths have ...
The Cogwheel Brain: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build ...
Doron SwadeThe story of his lifelong bid to construct such a machine is a triumph of human ingenuity, will and imagination.
Charles Babbage
Neil ChampionExamines the life and contributions of the English mathematician and inventor, whose work with calculating machines caused him to be called the father of the modern computer.
Mathematics in Victorian Britain
Preview3, 109. For details of the Difference Engine No. 2 halting mechanism, see Doron Swade, 'Charles Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2: technical description', Science Museum Papers in the History of Technology (1996), 44–45. Works, Vol.
The First Computers: History and Architectures
Preview9, 1987, 113-36; Bruce Collier, "The Little Engines that Could've: The Calculating Machines of Charles Babbage," Ph.D. Thesis, Harvard University, August 1970; Michael Lindgren, Glory and Failure: The Difference Engines of Johann Muller.
The Philosophical Breakfast Club: Four Remarkable Friends ...
Laura J. SnyderSnyder delivers a compelling portrait of four remarkable friends--William Whewell, Charles Babbage, John Herschel, and Richard Jones--who transformed science and changed the world.
A Knight of the Nets
Amelia E. Barr... Catherine Parr Traill Charles A. Eastman Charles Dickens Charles Dudley Warner Charles Farrar Browne Charles Ives Charles Kingsley Charles Lathrop Pack Charles Whibley Charles Willing Beale Charlotte M. Braeme Charlotte M. Yonge ...
Augusto Boal
Frances BabbageThis volume looks at the scope of Boal's career - from a playwright and director, to his manifesto in the 1970s for a 'Theatre of the Oppressed'. This will be fascinating for anyone interested in theatre's role in stimulating change.
Letters of the king of England
Halliwell-PhillippsCharles I. to Richard Browne 1643 343 Charles I. to prince Maurice . . , 1643 343 Charles I. to the mayor of Newbury 1643 344 Charles I. to the queen 1644 344 Charles I. to general Goring 1644 145 Charles I. to the earl of Newcastle . , 1644 ...
Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Bridget EscolmeThe work was supported in all its incarnations by the staff of the Workshop Theatre, University of Leeds, particularly Frances Babbage and Philip Roberts, and by our colleagues in the School of English, particularly Martin Butler. The School ...
Current Approaches in Drama Therapy
PreviewBoal's recently published autobiography entitled Hamlet and the Baker's Son ( 2001) and the extensive biography written by Frances Babbage (2004). The evolution of his methods has been published in several texts in several languages; ...
Narrative Inquiries of School Reform: Storied Lives, Storied ...
PreviewCharles and I unpacked the root of the problem in the following exchange: Cheryl : Charles: Cheryl: Charles: Cheryl: Charles: Cheryl: Charles: Cheryl: Charles: What do you think caused the problem with the [first story of reform—the state ...
The Boston Directory
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The roster of Union soldiers, 1861-1865
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Adaptation in Contemporary Theatre: Performing Literature
Frances BabbageThis study explores the fascination of novels, short stories, children's books and autobiographies for theatre makers and examines what 'becomes' of such texts when these are filtered into contemporary practice that includes physical ...
Improvisation in Drama, Theatre and Performance: History, ...
Anthony Frost... Shon DaleJones (Hoipolloi), John Martin (Pan Intercultural Arts) and Sanjoy Ganguly (Jana Sanskriti); to friends and colleagues who have read and commented on the book at different stages, in particular Julian Hilton, Frances Babbage, ...
John Charles Fremont: The Pathfinder
Charles W. MaynardHis father, also named John Charles, was from France. Anne Beverley Whiting, John Charles's mother, was the daughter of Colonel Thomas Whiting of Richmond, Virginia. When John Charles was only five years old, his father died.
Redefining Adaptation Studies
PreviewHelen Hunt, Scarlet ]ohansson, Stephen Campbell Moore (DVD B0003UAFC: Lionsgate Video, 2006). 10. Frances Babbage, Robert Neumark Iones, Lauren Williams, and Oscar Wilde, “No Small Parts” (unpublished play script, 2007, passim).
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