Hi Efstathios,
Your thesis looks fascinating but the link to the pdf seems to be broken?
Alice
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---- Efstathios Tsolis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi,
> As a member of the NMSI (conservator of Metals/Engineering) and as an
> MA (then) student of the Historical Archaeology course of the
> University of Bristol (2006-7) I had the opportunity to follow the
> Babbage project at its final steps. It was also an important element
> of my dissertation on Computing Material Culture Studies in the
> Science Museum of London. I dedicated a chapter on Charles Babbage's
> engines following an anthropological approach on the inventor's
> aspirations and the element of enchantment of the Victorian society in
> comparison with today's enchanting qualities of the reconstructed
> Babbage Difference engine no2.
>
> For more information you can check out the URL:
>
> http://computarch.blogspot.com/
>
> where a pdf download of the complete thesis is available
> regards
>
> Efstathios Tsolis
> Conservator of Metals/Engineering
> Science Museum
> London SW72DD
> On 10 May 2008, at 07:32, zoharesque wrote:
>
> > Charles Babbage completed plans for an elaborate, all-mechanical
> > calculator in 1849. His Difference Engine #2 was so complicated,
> > with more than 8,000 separate parts, that it was never built during
> > his lifetime. But now, thanks to the efforts of dedicated,
> > historically-minded engineers at the Science Museum in London, with
> > the support of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View,
> > California, plus a generous donation of cash from Microsoft
> > gazillionaire genius Nathan Myhrvold, Babbage's Difference Engine is
> > on display in Silicon Valley.
> >
> > http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/05/exclusive-video.html
> >
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> > Department of Archaeology
> > Flinders University
> > GPO Box 2100 Adelaide 5001
> >
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> > http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/archaeology/staff/gorman.php
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