Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.
CHARLES BABBAGE
Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.
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You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a country which is incapable of estimating it.
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No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last advances towards precision require a greater devotion of time, labour, and expense, than those which precede them.
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Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.
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Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.
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At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
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As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will neccessarily guide the future course of science.
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An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.
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Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.
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The triumph of the industrial arts will advance the cause of civilization more rapidly than its warmest advocates could have hoped, and contribute to the permanent prosperity and strength of the country far more than the most splendid victories of successful war.
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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
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