A set of 11 volumes which contains all the known works of Charles Babbage, who has been described as the "pioneer of the computer"
A set of 11 volumes which contains all the known works of Charles Babbage, who has been described as the "pioneer of the computer". His mathematical, scientific and engineering work is highly significant for its original approach to problem-solving and is reset for today's reader.
Volume
5. Scientific and miscellaneous papers II XXI Paper on the
principles of tools for turning and planing metals (1847) XXII Note
respecting the pink projections from the suns disc observed during the total
solar eclipse observed in 1851 (1852) XXIII Notes respecting lighthouses
(1852) XXIV Thoughts on the principles of taxation with reference to a
property tax and its exceptions (1852) XXV On the statistics of lighthouses
(1853) XXVI Correspondence on cypher writing, with J. H. B. Thwaites (1854)
XXVII Submarine navigation (1855) XXVIII On the possible use of the occulting
telegraph at Sebastopol (1855) XXIX A method of laying the guns of a battery
without exposing the men to the shot of the enemy (1855) XXX Cypher writing
(1855) XXXI Analysis of the statistics of the Clearing House during the year
1839 (1856) XXXII On the action of ocean currents in the formation of the
strata of the earth (1856) XXXIII Table of the relative frequency of
occurrence of the causes of breaking of plate glass windows (1857) XXXIV On
tables of the constants of nature and art (1857) XXXV Observations on the
discovery in various localities of the remains of human art mixed with the
bones of extinct races of animals (1860) XXXVI Contributions to the
discussions at the FourthInternational Statistical Congress, London (1860)
XXXVII Letter to Dr Farr on the origin of the International Statistical
Congresses (1860) XXXVIII Thoughts upon an extension of the franchise (1865)
XXXIX Observations on the parallel roads of Glen Roy (1868)
Charles Babbage, Martin Campbell-Kelly
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