Universal Machine Tool

PART OF:
The Babbage Papers
Made:
1857-1861
part of archive:
The Babbage Papers
maker:
Babbage, Charles

This series comprises two drawings and an accompanying loose leaf manuscript notebook. The notebook is formed out of six folio sized sheets folded to form a book. It includes rough diagrams, sketches and lists of axes, screws and pulleys relating to Babbage's universal machine tool.

Details

Extent:
2 drawings and a notebook
Identifier:
BAB/T
Access:
Open Access
System of Arrangement:
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The series is arranged alpha numerically. Although the pages of the notebook are numbered consecutively from 1-18, this does not reflect the true order of the content, which is written horizontally across the two pages which form each sheet, for example pages 1 and 18, 2 and 16 and so on.

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