The Difference Engine

Author(s): Gibson, William, Sterling, Bruce
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 13/01/2011,
Pagination: 400 pages,
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780575099401,
Description:

The computer age has arrived a century ahead of time with Charles Babbage's perfection of his Analytical Engine. The Industrial Revolution, supercharged by the development of steam-driven cybernetic Engines, is in full and drastic swing. Great Britain, with her calculating-cannons, steam dreadnoughts, machine-guns and information technology, prepares to better the world's lot ...