Babbage and Tennyson

Today, Charles Babbage writes a letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson. The University of Houston’s College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.

http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi879.htm

Also huffduffed as…

  1. Babbage and Tennyson

    —Huffduffed by adactio on September 24th, 2011

  2. Babbage and Tennyson

    —Huffduffed by unaffectedscorn on January 30th, 2012

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    —Huffduffed by Jax 4 years ago

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    Originally recorded on wax cylinder, Tennyson reads the first 26 lines of the poem

    —Huffduffed by fineartdavid 2 years ago

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    One of the earliest sound recordings ever made I would imagine. Best to read along with the text at http://charon.sfsu.edu/tennyson/lightbrigadewax.html

    —Huffduffed by derekjohnson one year ago