William Buckland to Faraday   15 May 1840

Oxon 15 May | 40

Dear Faraday

If it is customary to lay notices of forthcoming works on the Library Table of the Royal Institution, (but not otherwise,) I will thank you to treat the inclosed in the usual manner1.

There is a very ingenious native of Torrington Devon, who has made a new Calculating Machine which Babbage has seen & thinks to possess very great merit. The makers name is Fowler2 & he is with his Machine at 47 Hunter St Brunswick Square[.] Should you pass that way in the next 6 Days do call & look at the Man & his Machine & Believe me

Very Truly Yours | W. Buckland

De Morgan3 examined the Machine with Babbage[.]


Address: M. Faraday Esq | Royal Institution | Albemarle St | London

1
Conybeare (1840) was displayed on the Library table on 22 May 1840. RI MS F4E, p.78. The Friday Evening Discourse was by Brande "On White Lead". Noted in Phil.Mag., 1840, 17: 74.
2
Unidentified.
3
Augustus De Morgan (1806-1871, DSB). Mathematician.

Bibliography

CONYBEARE, William Daniel (1840): Ten Plates comprising a Plan, Sections, and Views, representing the changes produced on the coast of East Devon, between Axmouth and Lyme Regis, by the subsidence of the land and elevation of the bottom of the sea, on the 26th December 1839, and 3rd of February, 1840. ... The whole revised by Professor Buckland, London.

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