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Glory and Failure: The Difference Engines of Johann Müller, Charles Babbage, and Georg and Edvard Sheutz (History of Computing)
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Author: Michael Lindgren, Graig G. McKay
List Price: $65.00
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ISBN: 0262121468
Publisher: MIT Press (28 June, 1990)
Edition: Hardcover
Sales Rank: 727,534
Average Customer Rating: 5 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
A glorius story about two almost unknown swedish inventors
The story of Georg and Edvard Scheutz is a well written and entertaining scientific book. A young schoolboy, Edvard Scheutz, succeeds in his kitchen to construct a difference engine that works better then that of the famous Charles Babbage. The story of how father and son struggle together to make their difference engine a profitable invention is incredibly interesteting both in a technical and economical aspect but also in a social aspect. Interesting is of course also why a genious invention like theirs becomes such a financial failure.
This is a book to read both for those who have a general interest in history of techology and for those who have a particular interest in swedish history and inventors.
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