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        Date: 2023-12-04 15:39:18+00:00
        From: James Rovira <jamesrovira@gmail.com>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 37.333: pubs: full technical description of Babbage's Difference Engine

What an accomplishment -- thank you so much for your work.

Jim R

On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 2:16 AM Humanist <humanist@dhhumanist.org> wrote:

> Dear All
>
> I am pleased to report that the full technical description of Charles
> Babbage’s Difference Engine No. 2 has recently been made available
> online on open access by the Science Museum (London).
>
> The Engine was built to Babbage’s original drawings (1847-1849) and
> completed in 2002. It has 8,000 parts, weighs 5 tonnes, and works as
> Babbage intended. It is the first of Babbage’s calculating engines to be
> built in its entirety.
>
--
Dr. James Rovira <http://www.jamesrovira.com/>

   - *David Bowie and Romanticism
   <https://jamesrovira.com/2022/09/02/david-bowie-and-romanticism/>*,
   Palgrave Macmillan, 2022
   - *Women in Rock, Women in Romanticism
   <https://www.routledge.com/Women-in-Rock-Women-in-Romanticism-The-
Emancipation-of-Female-Will/Rovira/p/book/9781032069845>*,
   Routledge, 2023


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