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Search - Charles Babbage and the Story of the First Computer (Uncharted, Unexplored, and Unexplained) (Uncharted, Unexplored, and Unexplained)
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Charles Babbage and the Story of the First Computer - Uncharted, Unexplored, and Unexplained Author: In 1815, there weren?t any computers. Electricity hadn?t yet been discovered as a way to make things run. Calculating sums of numbers had to be done by hand. One mistake would mean adding everything up all over again. But English scientist Charles Babbage was planning to change all that. He planned to use his knowledge of mathematics and enginee... more »
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