I showed up kinda late on Sunday, so everyone was packing up to leave by the time I started taking pictures. I think these photos were taken over about 90 minutes. I need to go to bed now, so I can't tell the story of all this yet. I'll come back and edit this later…
Ahh, yeah. I didn't look it up ahead of time, was just going on memory. I was getting confused with Neal Stephenson and Bruce Sterling's novel 'The Difference Engine', which describes a steampunk Victorian England with exactly that premise: Babbage completes his Analytical Engine and computers made of oiled brass gears are all over.
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Date: 2006-12-05 03:16 am (UTC)