Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Museum of historic scientific instruments in a Jacobean hall, including part of Babbage's engine.
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This guide to the Whipple Museum of the History of Science in Cambridge follows Charles Babbage, the Trinity College mathematician who held Newton's old chair, and the calculating machine he set out to build in the eighteen-twenties. It touches on a quarrelsome toolmaker, a government paying the bills, and a son left holding a box of brass parts. Listen in the main gallery, where a Jacobean schoolroom roof hangs over the collection.
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