Dodd's Curiosities of Industry.
London, H. Lea, [1852].
This work is the first edition, which contains twelve articles on various industries. The article on "Calculating and registering machines" contains an account of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine no. 1 and a brief notice of the Analytical Engine. Other papers describe the manufacture and/or industrial uses of glass, wood, iron, electricity, paper, gold, textiles, etc.
First collected edition; 8vo ( 15 x 23 cm); [4], 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, advertisement at end pp.; later ink and pencil notes to preliminary pages, publisher's brown cloth, some fading and marking, extremities rubbed, overall a very good copy.
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