 | Industrial arts - 1832 - 488 pages
...author, to have had its origin in the calculatingengine, the construction of which he has so long been superintending : — " Having been induced, during...in England and on the Continent, for the purpose of endeavouring to make myself acquainted with the various resources of mechanical art, I was insensibly... | |
 | Charles Babbage - Industrialists - 1832 - 352 pages
...one of the consequences that have resulted from the Calculating-Engine, the construction of which 1 have been so long superintending. Having been induced...in England and on the Continent, for the purpose of endeavouring to make myself acquainted with the various resources of mechanical art, I was insensibly... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1832 - 630 pages
...construction of which he has so long been superintending : — " Having been induced, during thelast ten years, to visit a considerable number of workshops...in England and on the Continent, for the purpose of endeavouring to make myself acquaint* ed with the various resources of mechanical art, I was insensibly... | |
 | Charles Babbage - Industrial arts - 1835 - 450 pages
...volume may be considered as one of the consequences that have resulted from the Calculating-Engine, the construction of which I have been so long superintending....in England and on the Continent, for the purpose of endeavouring to make myself acquainted with the various resources of mechanical art, I was insensibly... | |
 | Charles Babbage - Calculators - 1846 - 448 pages
...volume may be considered as one of the consequences that have resulted from the Calculating-Engine, the construction of which I have been so long superintending....a considerable number of workshops and factories, ootn in England and on the Continent, for the purpose of endeavouring to make myself acquainted with... | |
 | Maxine Berg - Business & Economics - 1982 - 396 pages
...Babbage regarded his book as the result of a series of observations made over several years of visiting 'workshops and factories', both in England and on the continent, 'for the purpose of endeavouring to make myself acquainted with the various resources of mechanical art'.10 Ure, too, stressed... | |
 | Michael Lewis, Nigel Slack - Business & Economics - 2003 - 518 pages
...the "state-of-the-art" of many production technologies. This experience brought him into contact with "a considerable number of workshops and factories, both in England and on the continent" (p. iii) and his enthusiasm for, and reflections upon, what he discovered were distilled into On the... | |
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Having been induced, during the last ten years, to visit a considerable number of workshops and factories, both in England and on the Continent, for the purpose of endeavouring to make myself acquainted with the various resources of mechanical art, I... 