Charles Babbage was an English genius of legendary eccentricity. He invented the cowcatcher, the ophthalmoscope, and the “penny post.” ...
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Nov 30, 2009
mwbham
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Interesting story of a scientific team (four men and - horrors - a woman) from England traveling 2000 miles across the American West to Santa Fe (then Mexican territory) in a wagon train to film the eclipse of the sun with the newly developed camera of Louis Daquerre. The eclipse was predicted by Charles Babbage's reasoning machine, the Difference Engine - the precursor to the computer. Babbage was a legendary inventor and eccentric who invented the cowcatcher, and the ophthalmoscope. This par
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Mar 29, 2010
Sally
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How do I review a book that frustrated me all the way through and then came up with this amazing end? I was further frustrated to read in the Note at the end that this expedition never really took place. I think I need a more historical fact base in my historical fiction, but that being said, one of my frustrations was that too much history was jammed in unrelated to the storyline as I went along.
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