1826 · Babbage's Notation · Werk 482 von 1.871

A large drawing sheet covered in Babbage's mechanical notation, a timing chart of the moving parts of a calculating engine, long horizontal ruled lines running the full width of the sheet, each line labelled at its left end with the name of a machine part in small copperplate handwriting, short vertical strokes, square brackets and small arrowheads marked along the lines to show when each part moves, a narrow ruled column of letter symbols down one side, the whole in black ink on cream paper, the sheet lying flat on a grey studio table seen from directly above, its four corners resting free on the table, even flat light from directly above.