Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Family background and education; 2. Early mathematical work; 3. The first difference engine; 4. Life assurance; 5. Reform of science; 6. Economic theory; 7. Life peerage; 8. Babbage's philosophy; 9. Taxation; 10. The analytical engines; 11. Lighthouse signalling; Postscript; Works represented; Index; Plate section.

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Charles Babbage was a key figure of a great era of British history.