File 2 - Correspondence, notes, draft papers and other material relating to MVW's research into the life and career of Charles Babbage

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Wilkes/I/G/2

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GB 275 Wilkes/I/G/2

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Correspondence, notes, draft papers and other material relating to MVW's research into the life and career of Charles Babbage

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  • 1971–1981 (Creation)

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181pp. paper

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Includes correspondence with Kenneth O. May and Joseph W. Dauben, Historia Mathematica; D. W. Harding, Secretary-General of the British Computer Society; G. M. Heselton, Neil A. James and J. F. Nicholson, British Computer Society; J. M. Pugh and J. Wartnaby, Science Museum; Brian Randell, University of Newcastle; I. J. Seligsohn, IBM; W. Bennett; Nick Metropolis, Los Alamos; Patrick J. Boylan, Director of Exeter Museums; D. W. Barron, University of Southampton; H. A. Brück, Astronomer Royal for Scotland; J. A. Bell, The Elizabethan House Totnes; J. H. Love, State Library of South Australia; Timothy O'Keeffe, Martin Brian & O'Keeffe Ltd; D. G. C. Allan, The Royal Society of Arts; Vivien, Lord Bowden, UMIST; Stuart Barton Babbage, Birmingham Michigan; the Secretary of the General Secretary Company, London W10; Elizabeth Babbage; Frederico Oliveira-Pinto; Charles E. Babbage; Philip Enros; Edna Healey; Paul Armer, the Charles Babbage Institute. Draft papers: Alan E. Shapiro, 'Charles Babbage and the "political economy" of science'; Peter Wegner, Brown University, 'A chronicle of the computer age'.

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