Reading Passages from the Life of a Philosopher | Alexandria
Read Passages from the Life of a Philosopher by Charles Babbage. Inventing the first computer while battling street musicians, Charles Babbage's wild autobiography reveals an eccentric genius who waged war on London's organ grinders, invented submarine navigation, and broke ciphers - all while building mechanical calculators that predicted our digital age. His oddly prophetic vision saw both computation's power and its social disruption.