Mechanical Notation ... I look upon it as one of the most important ad…

Charles Babbage
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Mechanical Notation ... I look upon it as one of the most important additions I have made to human knowledge. It has placed the construction of machinery in the rank of a demonstrative science. The day will arrive when no school of mechanical drawing will be thought complete without teaching it. ✨ Charles Babbage (1864). Passages from the Life of a Philosopher, p.452, London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green
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