Beschreibung:

Babbage (Charles). The Exposition of 1851; or, views of the industry, the science, and the government of England, second edition, with additions, London: John Murray 1851, half-title, 4pp. publishers advertisements at end, plus additional 16-page publishers catalogue, dated February 1851, several marginal annotations in brown ink by Whitmore Jones to preface, and further note in brown ink to chapter XVI, to the first page bound in at rear, binders ticket of Remnant & Edmonds, London to rear pastedown, original blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper cover, some light soiling and splash marks, faded to spine and edges, 8vo (Quantity: 1) Provenance: Presentation copy from Charles Babbage to John Henry Whitmore (1795/96-1853) of Chastleton; From the library of Alan Clutton-Brock (1904-1976), thence by descent. Author's presentation copy, from Charles Babbage to John Henry Whitmore Jones. Chapter XIII is an account by Babbage of the design and construction of his Difference Engine. An appendix contains De Morgan's review of Weld's History of the Royal Society, in particular 'Mr Babbages Calculating Machine'. Origins of Cyberspace 67. 'Babbage had been proposed to head the Industrial Commission for the Great Exhibition of 1851 but was rejected because of his early radicalism and his conflicts with the government over the Difference Engine. Resentful over his treatment, Babagge decided to publish a book on the Exhibition to set before the public the ideas that he otherwise would have presented at the Exhibition's governing committees. Babbage's Difference Engine, although certainly one of the engineering marvels of the 19th century, was not included in the Exhibition.'