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The exposition of 1851 : $b or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government, of EnglandBabbage, Charles

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The exposition of 1851 : $b or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government, of England

Name: The exposition of 1851 : $b or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government, of England
Author: Babbage, Charles

Babbage, Charles

Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England)

On one or two points I differed entirely from the opinion of those to
whom its management was confided. The questions of the _site of the
building_, and of _affixing prices to articles exhibited_, were the most
important of them. I took the earliest opportunity of expressing
strongly my views on those subjects to several personal friends who were
members of that Commission, nor did I ever fail to communicate through
the fittest channel any circumstance I became acquainted with which
might advance its interests.

  [1] See Chapter on Prices.

  [2] “A bad old woman making a worse will.”—BYRON.




                                CONTENTS.

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                                                                  PAGE
                              CHAPTER I.
  INTRODUCTION                                                       1
                              CHAPTER II.
  ERROR RESPECTING THE INTERCHANGE OF COMMODITIES                    7
                             CHAPTER III.
  OF SOCIETIES                                                      12
                              CHAPTER IV.
  ORIGIN OF THE EXPOSITION OF 1851                                  26
                              CHAPTER V.
  OBJECT AND USE OF THE EXPOSITION                                  42
                              CHAPTER VI.
  LIMITS                                                            48
                             CHAPTER VII.
  SITE AND CONSTRUCTION OF BUILDING                                 55
                             CHAPTER VIII.
  PRICES                                                            64
                              CHAPTER IX.
  PRIZES                                                            99
                              CHAPTER X.
  JURIES, ETC.                                                     112
                              CHAPTER XI.
  ULTERIOR OBJECTS                                                 125
                             CHAPTER XII.
  INTRIGUES OF SCIENCE                                             149
                             CHAPTER XIII.
  CALCULATING ENGINES                                              173
                             CHAPTER XIV.
  POSITION OF SCIENCE                                              189
                              CHAPTER XV.
  THE PRESS                                                        202
                             CHAPTER XVI.
  PARTY                                                            209
                             CHAPTER XVII.
  REWARDS OF MERIT                                                 220
                               APPENDIX.
  THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER OF MR. WELD’S HISTORY OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY  251




                               CHAPTER I.

                              INTRODUCTION.

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