...been induced, during thelast 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 acquaint* ed with the various resources of mechanical art, I was insensibly led to apply to them those...

...number of workshops and factories, both in England and on the Continent, for the purpose of making myself acquainted with the various resources of mechanical...which my other pursuits had naturally given rise." It is clear in this case, that the accuracy obtained in mathematical science led Mr. Babbage to conceive...

...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...acquainted with the various resources of mechanical art'.10 Ure, too, stressed that his studies 'derived from a summer wandering through the factory districts...

...manufacturing. Thus he "was insensibly led to apply to them [the various sources of mechanical art] those principles of generalization to which my other pursuits had naturally given rise. "70 This by-product of his work on the computer is his major monument because, in 1842, the government...

...all over Europe to acquaint himself with the extant state of the mechanical art, he tells us that he "was insensibly led to apply to them those principles...which my other pursuits had naturally given rise." The result, besides what I am calling a "taxonomy of machines," which can be viewed as a kind of mechanical...