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== Further reading == {{Refbegin|}} * {{cite book |title=The Philosophical Breakfast Club: Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World |last=Snyder |first=Laura J. |publisher=Broadway |date=2011 |isbn=978-0-7679-3048-2 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/philosophicalbre0000snyd}} * {{cite book |url=http://ed-thelen.org/bab/bab_tech.html |title=Charles Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2 – Technical Description |last=Swade |first=Doron |date=September 1996 |publisher=[[National Museum of Science and Industry]] |series=Science Museum Papers in the History of Technology No 5 |location=London |access-date=2009-01-11}} * {{cite book |title=The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer |last=Swade |first=Doron |publisher=Penguin (reprint) |date=2002 |isbn=978-0-14-200144-8 |author-link=Doron Swade |url=https://archive.org/details/differenceengine00doro}} * {{cite book |title=The Cogwheel Brain |last=Swade |first=Doron |publisher=Abacus |date=2001 |isbn=978-0-349-11239-8}} * {{cite video |people=Doron Swade, [[Nathan Myhrvold]] |title=Myhrvold & Swade Discuss Babbage's Difference Engine |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1sEowi1Txc |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/p1sEowi1Txc |archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live |medium=lecture: [[Len Shustek]], intro; Doron Swade @7:35, Nathan Myhrvold @36:25; discussion @46:45 |publisher=Computer History Museum |date=June 10, 2008 |access-date=2009-11-06}}{{cbignore}} * {{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O170gWPZ7M8C |title=The History of Mathematical Tables: From Sumer to Spreadsheets |last1=Campbell-Kelly |first1=Martin |date=2003 |publisher=OUP Oxford |others=Michael R. Williams |isbn=9780198508410 |chapter=Difference engines: from Müller to Comrie}} *Hollings, C., Martin, U., & Rice, A. C. (2018). Ada lovelace: The making of a computer scientist. Bodleian Library.{{Refend}}
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