Economy and Extravagance
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary |
Subjects: | Mathematics, Instruments, Government, Patronage |
Points out the failure of the government to finance Charles Babbage's calculating machine. Complains that the cost of securing 'the completion of that marvellous instrument' is a small fraction of the money that has been 'squandered through Admiralty mismanagement' since the funding for Babbage's invention ended. |
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