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Technology - A History of Machine Tools, 1700–1910. By W. Steeds. Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press. 1969. Pp. xx + 181. 153 plates. £6 6s.
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05 January 2009
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1 Charles Babbage, the father of the computer, was inspired by the punched-card mechanism of the Jacquard loom.