Book

On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures

Charles Babbage

1832

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Calculating machines.

Plantations, Computers, and Industrial Control

The proto-Taylorist methods of worker control Charles Babbage encoded into his calculating engines have origins in plantation management.

by Meredith Whittaker via Logic on May 25, 2023

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