Charles Babbage: The Inventor of the First Computer

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

The gas lamps flickered in the Trinity College library as young Charles Babbage bent over his mathematics texts on a cold Cambridge evening in 1811, his mind wrestling with the errors that plagued the astronomical and mathematical tables upon which sailors, engineers, and scientists depended for their calculations. The tedious process of computing logarithms by hand inevitably led to mistakes that could send ships off course or undermine enginee...