Bibliography

Annals of the Dudley Observatory, vol. 1. Albany, N.Y.: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1866. pp. 116-126.

Archibald, R. C. “P. G. Scheutz, Publicist, Author, Scientific Mechanician, and Edvard Scheutz, Engineer – Biography and Bibliography.” Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation 2 (October 1947): 238-245.

Babbage, Charles. Passages from the Life of a Philosopher.1864. Reprint. New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1969.

Babbage, Henry Prevost, ed. Babbage’s Calculating Engines, Being a Collection of Papers Relating to Them, Their History and Construction. 1889. Reprint. Los Angeles: Tomash Publishers, 1983.

Baxandall, D. Calculating Machines and Instruments. 1926. Revised by Jane Pugh. London: Science Museum, 1975.

Bromley, Allan G. “Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.” Annals 4 (July 1982): 196-217.

Chase, George C. “History of Mechanical Computing Machinery.” Annals 2 (July 1980): 198-226.

Clerke, A. M. “Babbage, Charles.” Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 2, pp. 304-306.

Defence of Dr. Gould by the Scientific Council of the Dudley Observatory. Albany, N.Y.: Weed,

Parsons and Company, 1858.

Horsburgh, Ellice Martin, ed. Modern Instruments and Methods of Calculations: A Handbook of the Napier Tercentenary Celebration Exhibition. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1914.

Huskey, Velma R., and Huskey, Harry D. “Lady Lovelace and Charles Babbage.” Annals 2 (October 1980): 299-329.

Hyman, Anthony. Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983.

Last, J. “Digital Calculating Machines.” The Chartered Mechanical Engineer 9 (December 1962): 572-579.

Lovelace, Augusta Ada. “Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage, by L. F.

Menabrea, of Turin, Officer of the Military Engineers, With notes upon the Memoir by the Translator.” 1843. In Morrison, Charles Babbage, pp. 225-297.

Margerison, T. A. “Computers.” In A History of Technology, edited by Trevor I. Williams, vol. 7, pt. 2, pp. 1150-1203. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978.

Morrison, Philip and Emily, eds. Charles Babbage and His Calculating Engines. New York: Dover Publications, 1961.

Statement of the Trustees of the Dudley Observatory. Albany, N.Y.: Van Benthuysen, 1858.

Usher, A. P. A History of Mechanical Inventions. 2nd ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University

Press, 1954.

Williams, M. R. “The Difference Engines.” The Computer Journal 19 (February 1976): 82-89.

 

Notes 

37        “One evening I was sitting”: Babbage, Passages, p. 42.

40        “I wish to God these calculations”: Morrison, Charles Babbage, p. xiv.

43        “Mr. Babbage has displayed great talent”: Hyman, Charles Babbage, p. 52.

“I had some conversations”: Ibid.

44        “get up every morning”: Babbage, Passages, p.19.

46        “the principles of pure D-ism”: Morrison, Charles Babbage, p. 66.

53        “I remember a funny dinner”: Hyman, Charles Babbage, p. 179.

“My Lords cannot but express”: Ibid., p. 130.

“The drawings and parts”: Ibid., p. 132.

54        “What shall we do to get rid”: Ibid., pp. 190191.

“I have… been compelled”: Ibid., p. 134.

57        “Inventors are so seldom found”: Ibid., p.

59        “The constructor of the navy”: Ibid., p. 241.

64        “We may say most aptly”: Morrison, Charles Babbage, p. 252.

66        “In the first room I saw”: Horsburgh, Modern Instruments and Methods of Calculations, pp. 19-21.