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Photos: Charles Babbage's masterpiece reincarnated
Photo Here, Tim Robinson (right), who makes specialised computing machinery, shows his version of a Babbage Difference engine to Richard Horton (foreground), the lead engineer on the Myhrvold/Science Museum. [10 Apr 2008]
Christie's flogs off the history of IT
News For around $15,000, bidders can get their hands on 'A letter to Sir Humphry Davy, Bart.on the application of machinery to the purpose of calculating and printing mathematical tables' first published in 1822, where Babbage explains the details of... [02 Feb 2005]
