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Irascible Genius:

A Life of Charles Babbage, Inventor
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Hutchinson & Company, 1964 - Calculators - 287 pages

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Contents

Authors Note
13
Foreword by B V Bowden
15
The Man
17
Copyright

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Irascible genius: the life of Charles Babbage
Irascible genius: the life of Charles Babbage
Maboth Moseley
Snippet view - 1970
Irascible genius: the life of Charles Babbage
Irascible genius: the life of Charles Babbage
Maboth Moseley
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TitleIrascible Genius: A Life of Charles Babbage, Inventor
Reprints of economic classics
AuthorMaboth Moseley
PublisherHutchinson & Company, 1964
Length287 pages
  
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