Stereotype drawings
- PART OF:
- The Babbage Papers
- Made:
- 1837-05-10-1838-07-30
- part of archive:
- The Babbage Papers
- maker:
- Babbage, Charles
These 13 drawings are impressions from stereotype plates prepared for Babbage. They show how the printed drawings were made by successively removing detail from a stereotype plate. There are multiple impressions of most of these drawings.
The drawings are accompanied by manuscript notes describing the mechanism for addition. The second page of notes includes the text "copied by Professor Matthes" in Babbage's own hand.
The drawings were published in "Babbage's Calculating Engines" by H. P. Babbage.
Details
- Extent:
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14 drawings and accompanying manuscript notes.
- Identifier:
- BAB/M
- Access:
- Open Access
- System of Arrangement:
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The series is arranged alpha-numerically in date order.
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