History of mechanics - to explore.
I have a hint to offer:
Mike Cooley (My contact to Mike was 1989 when he was Director of Technology at the Greater London Enterprise Board) refers to another source in his own book: Architect or Bee?. I got this other book: The Story of the Engineers 1800 -...
Your subject on mechanical computers and the note on Charles Babbage made me remember a few things:
First: Mr. Babbage is well known on methods to dechiper cypher. He worked in the middle of the 1800's.
His story is told by by professor Ole Immanuale Franksen of the Danish Technical...
