in 2016 with funding from
Getty Research Institute
FROM
THE LIFE OF A PHILOSOPHER.
LONDON: rRINXF.D I)Y W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.
B. H. Babbage, del.
Impression from a woodcut ot a small portion of Mr. Babbage's Difference
Engine No. 1, the property of Government, at present deposited in the IMuseum at South Kensington.
It was commenced 1823.
This portion put together 1833.
The construction abandoned 1842.
This plate was printed June, 1853.. 'This portion was in the Exhibition 1862,
FROM
THE LIFE OF A PHILOSOPUEll.
BY
CHARLES BARBAHE, ESQ., M.A.,
F.R.S., F.R S.E., F.R.A.S., F. STAT, S., IION, M.R.I.A., M.C.P.S.,
COMMANDER OF THE ITALIAN ORDER OF ST. MAURICE AND ST. LAZARUS,
INST. IMP. (ACAD. MORAL.) PARIS CORR., ACAD. AMER. ART. ET SC. BOSTON, REG. (ECON, BORTISS.,
PHYS. HIST. NAT, GENEV., ACAD. REG, MONAC., HAFN., MAS.SIL., ET DIVION., SOCIDS.
ACAD. IMP, ET REG. PETEOP., NEAP., BRUX., PATAV., GEORG. FLOEEN, LYNCEI ROM., MUT., PHILOMATH.
PARIS, SOC. COER., ETC,
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