babbage's dancer

suggestions for further reading

Richard Altick, The Shows of London (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 1978)

C.M.Carroll, The Great Chess Automaton (New York: Dover Books, 1975)

Alfred Chapuis and Edmond Droz, Automata (London: Batsford, 1958)

H.M.Collins, Artificial Experts: Social Knowledge and Intelligent Machines (Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, 1990)

Anne French, John Joseph Merlin: the Ingenious Mechanick (London: Greater London Council, 1985)

William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, The Difference Engine (London: Victor Gollancz, 1990)

Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: the Enigma (London: Hutchinson, 1983)

Anthony Hyman, Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982)