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Sydney Padua's List: L&B Period Documents- Other Characters
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Mar 31, 10
Authorship controversy over the telegraph-- Wheatstone or Cooke? This account seems partisan to Cooke. Small appearance by IK Brunel on adjudicator panel (seriously did that guy ever sleep?) Haven't read through this, as it's peripheral to my researches.
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Oct 14, 10
this is great, a real look at the underbelly, if you'll pardon the expression, of 1848 London. Cholera outbreaks, natural-language interviews with everyone from doctors to engineers, what you paid a surveyor who was a 'good computer' .. wealth of stuff in here.
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Aug 27, 11
Fascinating report on the state of patent law and struggling to keep up with rapid technological change. Lots on the Jacquard loom.
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Sep 02, 14
William Rowan Hamilton Waxes Poetical
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