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  • 6 - Ideas Embodied in Metal: Babbage’s Engines Dismembered and Remembered

  • Edited by Joshua Nall, University of Cambridge, Liba Taub, University of Cambridge, Frances Willmoth, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    The Whipple Museum of the History of Science
    Published online:
    19 August 2019
    Print publication:
    22 August 2019, pp 119-158
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    This chapter seeks to extend previous studies of Charles Babbage’s celebrated difference engine through an examination of a rare surviving fragment in the Whipple Museum’s collection. Constructed from scrap parts inherited by Charles’s son, Henry, in order to relaunch the engine project, the fragment has much to reveal about the afterlife of Babbage’s most famous failure. An appendix to the chapter also publishes for the first time key documents relating to Henry Babbage’s project.