On the train at Manchester the accents wash over me.
“Youe go’ u’ early todey innit?”
What to do with three hours in London? Roll a dice on Monopoly board. Euston Road to Kensington.
And here I am.
This is a 1543 edition print of a book by Vetruvius, a Roman architect. He emphasised Mathematical symmetry and perspective in architectural beauty. It less than 100 years from the time of Da’Vinci – and he would have read an earlier print of this book, when producing his work the Vetruvian Man.
This is a Sextant and book of Log tables they used on ships for navigation.
This is a fragment of Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine (The Log Tabulator). He would have used it for obtaining further funding. It indicates that his complete machine was never built.
This is a slightly bigger but still incomplete version (of the Log Tabulator) done by this son after his death using parts that he found. You can see a book of log tables next to it.
This is a complete reconstruction of the Difference Engine (log tabulator) built in 2002 by Computer-Engineer historians.
This is a part of the Analytical Engine (enables numbers to knit numbers) that Charles Babbage completed. Plans show that if completed, the final result would have been much bigger.
This is a calculator/computer that Lord Kelvin (William Thomson) built to predict tides. Some have called it the first Victorian Computer.
