Project Gutenberg #57532
Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
Charles Babbage
1864Babbage's autobiography and account of his calculating engines, prepared chapter by chapter from Project Gutenberg HTML.
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Baked in an Oven — A Living Volcano — Vesuvius in action — Carried up the Cone of Ashes in a Chair — View of the Crater in a Dark Night — Sunrise — Descent by Ropes and Rolling into the great Crater — Watched the small Crater in active eruption at intervals — Measured a Base of 330 feet — Depth of great Crater 570 feet — Descent into small Crater — A Lake of red-hot Boiling Lava — Regained the great Crater with the sacrifice of my Boots — Lunched on Biscuits and Irish Whisky — Visit to the Hot Springs of Ischia — Towns destroyed by Earthquake — Coronets of Smoke projected by Vesuvius — Artificial Mode of producing them — Fire-damp visited in Welsh Coal-mine in company with Professor Moll.