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On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures, Paperback / softback Book

On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures Paperback / softback

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1. There exists, perhaps, no single circumstance which distinguishes our country more remarkably from all others, than the vast extent and perfection to which we have carried the contrivance of tools and machines for forming those conveniences of which so large a quantity is consumed by almost every class of the community.

The amount of patient thought, of repeated experiment, of happy exertion of genius, by which our manufactures have been created and carried to their present excellence, is scarcely to be imagined.

If we look around the rooms we inhabit, or through those storehouses of every convenience, of every luxury that man can desire, which deck the crowded streets of our larger cities, we shall find in the history of each article, of every fabric, a series of failures which have gradually led the way to excellence; and we shall notice, in the art of making even the most insignificant of them...Charles Babbage KH FRS was an English polymath.

A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer.

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