Explore "Passages from the Life of a Philosopher" by Charles Babbage on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
New Inventions -- Stomach Pump -- Built a Carriage -- Description of Thames Tunnel -- Barton's Iridescent Buttons -- Chinese Orders of Nobility -- Manufactory of Gold Chains at Venice -- Pulsations and Respirations of Animals -- Punching a Hole in Glass without cracking it -- Specimen of an Enormous Smash -- Proteus Anguineus -- Travellers' Hotel at Sheffield -- Wentworth House.
In this chapter I propose to throw together a few suggestions, which may assist in rendering a tour successful for its objects and agreeable in its reminiscences.