Charles Babbage selected correspondence, 1827-1871

Mss.H.S.Film.15

Date: 1827-1871 | Size: 1 microfilm_reel(s)
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Abstract

Mentioned in these letters are personal affairs, experiments, Babbage's calculating machine, and his "Bridgewater Treatise," second edition.

Background note

Charles Babbage was a mathematician and inventor.

Collection Information

Physical description

1 microfilm reel.

Provenance

Location of originals:

Originals in British Museum, Manuscripts Department, London.

Early American History Note

This is a microfilm of an early American collection that may be of interest to researchers at the APS and may complement an original manuscript collection at the APS.

Indexing Terms


Genre(s)

  • Microfilm Collection

Personal Name(s)

  • Alexander, J. H. (John Henry), 1812-1867
  • Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871
  • Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867
  • Biddle, Clement C. (Clement Cornell), 1784-1855
  • Bowditch, Henry I. (Henry Ingersoll), 1808-1892
  • Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838
  • Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842
  • Everett, Edward, 1794-1865
  • Featherstonhaugh, George William, 1780-1866
  • Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824-1896
  • Gray, Asa, 1810-1888
  • Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878
  • Howgate, Henry W.
  • Hughes, George W. (George Wurtz), 1806-1870
  • Loomis, Elias, 1811-1889
  • Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 1806-1873
  • Pickering, John, 1777-1846
  • Sedgwick, Theodore, 1811-1859
  • Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864
  • Silliman, Benjamin, 1816-1885
  • Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
  • Vaughan, Daniel
  • Vaughan, William, 1752-1850

Subject(s)

  • Calculators.
  • Science -- Experiments.
  • Scientists -- Great Britain.