Difference Engine Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer

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. He has published widely on curatorship and the history of computing and appears frequently on radio and television. Doron Swade masterminded the six-year project to construct a Babbage calculating engine from original nineteenth-century designs. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and lives in Kingston-upon-Thames, SurreySwade, Doron is the author of 'Difference Engine Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer', published 0008 under ISBN 9780756776169 and ISBN 0756776163.