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Babbage would have likely had more success if he stayed in England and opened his own precision machine shop.
by jandrese 2y ago
Babbage would have likely had more success if he stayed in England and opened his own precision machine shop.
- DemocracyFTW2 2y agoMy thinking exactly. He could've created a market for adding machines and, building on commercial success, use revenues to build more ambitious machines.
- wizzwizz4 2y agoAnd he may well have done, if Ada Lovelace hadn't got cancer: she had managed to convince him to let her run his business, leaving him to deal only with R&D.