- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Introduction
-
1 Carrying Tens: Pascal, Morland, and the Challenge of Machine Calculation -
1 First Carry Babbage and Clement Mechanize Table Making -
2 Artisans and Their Philosophers: Leibniz and Hooke Coordinate Minds, Metal, and Wood -
11 Second Carry Babbage Gets Funded -
3 Improvement for Profit: Calculating Machines and the Prehistory of Intellectual Property -
111 Third Carry Babbage Claims His Property -
4 Reinventing the Wheel: Emulation in the European Enlightenment -
1111 Fourth Carry Babbage Confronts Prior Art -
5 Teething Problems: Charles Stanhope and the Coordination of Technical Knowledge from Geneva to Kent -
11111 Fifth Carry Babbage’s Collaborators Emulate -
6 Calculating Machines, Creativity, and Humility from Leibniz to Turing -
111111 Final Carry Epilogue - Acknowledgments
- Conventions
- Abbreviations
- References
- Index
Babbage’s Collaborators Emulate
Babbage’s Collaborators Emulate
- Chapter:
- (p.200) 11111 Fifth Carry Babbage’s Collaborators Emulate
- Source:
- Reckoning with Matter
- Author(s):
Matthew L. Jones
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
Leonardo imagined the first one.The next was a pole lathe with a drive cord,illustrated in Plumier’s L’art de tourner en perfection.Then Ramsden, Vauconson, the great Maudslay,his student Roberts, Fox, Clement, Whitworth.[…]I listen to the clunk-and-slide of the milling machine,...
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Introduction
-
1 Carrying Tens: Pascal, Morland, and the Challenge of Machine Calculation -
1 First Carry Babbage and Clement Mechanize Table Making -
2 Artisans and Their Philosophers: Leibniz and Hooke Coordinate Minds, Metal, and Wood -
11 Second Carry Babbage Gets Funded -
3 Improvement for Profit: Calculating Machines and the Prehistory of Intellectual Property -
111 Third Carry Babbage Claims His Property -
4 Reinventing the Wheel: Emulation in the European Enlightenment -
1111 Fourth Carry Babbage Confronts Prior Art -
5 Teething Problems: Charles Stanhope and the Coordination of Technical Knowledge from Geneva to Kent -
11111 Fifth Carry Babbage’s Collaborators Emulate -
6 Calculating Machines, Creativity, and Humility from Leibniz to Turing -
111111 Final Carry Epilogue - Acknowledgments
- Conventions
- Abbreviations
- References
- Index
