Introduction
1 Carrying Tens: Pascal, Morland, and the Challenge of Machine Calculation
First Carry Babbage and Clement Mechanize Table Making
2 Artisans and Their Philosophers: Leibniz and Hooke Coordinate Minds, Metal, and Wood
Second Carry Babbage Gets Funded
3 Improvement for Profit: Calculating Machines and the Prehistory of Intellectual Property
Third Carry Babbage Claims His Property
4 Reinventing the Wheel: Emulation in the European Enlightenment
Fourth Carry Babbage Confronts Prior Art
5 Teething Problems: Charles Stanhope and the Coordination of Technical Knowledge from Geneva to Kent
Fifth Carry Babbage’s Collaborators Emulate
6 Calculating Machines, Creativity, and Humility from Leibniz to Turing
Final Carry Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Conventions
Abbreviations
Notes
References
Index