Fluidr / brucesflickr's "Museo degli Strumenti per il Calcolo" set

pisa65

N 1 B 872 C 0 E Dec 10, 2015 F Dec 11, 2015

When the vacuum bulbs die they go black inside

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pisa71

N 1 B 290 C 1 E Dec 10, 2015 F Dec 11, 2015

Now that's "steampunk." I really like the trouble taken to fake the grainy failures of the fake woodblock circus-fonts

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pisa72

N 0 B 206 C 0 E Dec 10, 2015 F Dec 12, 2015

A table adorned with defunct technology where I described the abject failure of Babbage's Difference Engine project

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pisa70

N 0 B 224 C 0 E Dec 10, 2015 F Dec 11, 2015

It would have printed a lot of logarithmic tables if they could have kept all the moving parts spinning

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pisa69

N 0 B 245 C 0 E Dec 10, 2015 F Dec 11, 2015

A frame for vacuum tubes and the sheet-metal bender that the school used for making the frames

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