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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Coming Soon to Your Neighbourhood Office Depot...

Nineteenth-century British mathematician and engineer Charles Babbage has a host of inventions to his name, including the standard railroad gauge, the cowcatcher and the ophthalmoscope. A famous design he never built is his Difference Engine No. 2, a piece of Victorian technology meant to tussle... Sign in to see full entry.

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