 One evening I was sitting in the rooms of the Analytical Society, at Cambridge, my head leaning forward on the Table in a kind of dreamy mood, with a Table of logarithms lying open before me. Another member, coming into the room, and seeing me half asleep,...  Convention - Page 118by National Electric Light Association. Convention - 1915Full view - About this book
 | Charles Babbage - 1864 - 544 pages
...lying open before me. Another member, coming into the room, and seeing me half asleep, called out, " Well, Babbage, what are you dreaming about ?" to which...the logarithms) might be calculated by machinery." I am indebted to my friend, the Rev. Dr. Robinson, the Master of the Temple, for this anecdote. The... | |
 | Charles Babbage - 1864 - 574 pages
...Another member, ci'innu- hit" the rcorr.. and seeing me half asleep, called out. "Well. Kibluge, wiut are you dreaming about :'" to which I replied. "I am thinking that all these Tables (pointing to the logaritLn.si might be calculated by machinery." I am indebted to my friend, the Uev. Pr. Robinson,... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1865 - 574 pages
...coming into the room and seeing me half asleep, called out, " Well, Babbage, what are you (breaming about? " To which I replied, " I am thinking that...the logarithms) might be calculated by machinery." The event must have happened either in 1812 or 1813. 'About 1819 I was occupied with devising means... | |
 | Anthony Hyman - 1985 - 348 pages
...logarithms lying open before me. Another member, coming into the room, and seeing me half asleep called out "Well, Babbage, what are you dreaming about ?" to...(pointing to the logarithms) might be calculated by machinery."'5 There is no real contradiction between these stories as an idea may occur fleetingly... | |
 | Charles Babbage - 1989 - 386 pages
...lying open before me. Another member, coming into the room, and seeing me half asleep, called out, 'Well, Babbage, what are you dreaming about?' to which...the logarithms) might be calculated by machinery.' I am indebted to my friend, the Rev. Dr. Robinson, the Master of the Temple, for this anecdote. The... | |
 | Kenneth Eriksson - 1996 - 558 pages
...lying open before me. Another member, coming into the room, and seeing me half asleep, called out: Well, Babbage, what are you dreaming about? to which...replied "I am thinking that all these Tables (pointing at the logarithms) might be calculated by machinery". (Babbage) Today we know that the program-controlled... | |
 | Howard Rheingold - 2000 - 366 pages
...lying open before me. Another member, coming into the room, and seeing me half asleep, called out, "Well, Babbage, what are you dreaming about?" To which...the logarithms) might be calculated by machinery." In 1822, Babbage triumphantly demonstrated to the Royal Astronomical Society a small working model... | |
 | William E. Lyons - 2001 - 326 pages
...lying open before me. Another member, coming into the room, and seeing me half asleep, called out, 'Well, Babbage, what are you dreaming about?' to which...(pointing to the logarithms) might be calculated by machinery.'4 Babbage first produced blueprints for a special-purpose automatic calculating machine,... | |
 | Martin Campbell-Kelly - 2003 - 384 pages
...seeing me half asleep, called out. 'Well Babbage, what are you dreaming about?' to which 1 rephed,'1 am thinking that all these tables (pointing to the logarithms) might be calculated by machinery'. 3 This was writren S0 years after the reported incident and Babbage admits that he did not remember... | |
 | J. M. Dubbey, John Michael Dubbey - 2004 - 248 pages
...lying open before me. Another member, coming into the room, and seeing me half asleep, called out, 'Well, Babbage, what are you dreaming about?' to which...(pointing to the logarithms) might be calculated by machinery.'1 He adds that this incident must have happened in 1812 or 1813. Babbage certainly did not... | |
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