Author: George Dodd; Charles Babbage
Title: The Curiosities of Industry and the Applied Sciences
Description: London, Lea, 1852. Cloth. An uncommon publication, of twelve articles from George Dodd's 'Cyclopaedia of the Industry of All Nations&apos. This issue contains twelve articles under the title 'Dodd's Curiosities of Industry' and was issued under H Lea's imprint. This particular copy is lacking the title page, although collation matches the Lea publication. In the same year Routledge issued a copy containing sixteen of the articles, under the title 'The Curiosities of Industry and the Applied Sciences&apos. First edition thus, the first edition of this collected issue. This twelve chapter issue is scarcer than the sixteen chapter issue. The article on "Calculating and registering machines" contains an account of Babbage's Difference Engine no. 1 and a brief notice of the Analytical Engine. Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer. Comprising of: Glass and Its Manufacture Iron and Its Manufacture Calculating and Registering Machines India Rubber and Gutta Percha Industrial Applications of Electricity Gold Paper Printing Its Modern Varieties Corn and Bread What they Owe to Machinery A Ship in the Nineteenth Century Fire and Light Wool and Silk, Fur and Feathers The chapters to this work were originally issued separately. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, sound, with loss to the head and tail of spine. Minor bumping to the extremities. Prior owner's bibliographic notes to the front pastedown. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages 3-20 of 'Gold' is loosening. Pages are bright. Chips to edge of page 21 to 'Wool and Silk&apos. Pages are very clean. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

Keywords: Babbage Calculating Machine Charles Babbage Dodd Calculating Machine None


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