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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One Saturday morning an American gentleman who had just arrived from Liverpool, where he had landed from the United States on the previous day, called in Dorset Street. He was very anxious to see the Difference Engine, and quite fitted by his previous studies for understanding it well. I took him into the drawing-room in which the machine then resided and gave him a short explanation of its structure. As I expected a large party of my friends in the evening, {426} amongst whom were a few men of science, I asked him to join the party.