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PASSAGES FROM THE LIFE OF A PHILOSOPHER, by Charles Babbage
[Illustration:
_B. H. Babbage, del._
Impression from a woodcut of a small portion of Mr. Babbage’s Difference Engine No. 1, the property of Government, at present deposited in the Museum at South Kensington.
It was commenced 1823. This portion put together 1833. The construction abandoned 1842. This plate was printed June, 1853. This portion was in the Exhibition 1862.]
