1859 · Scheutz Machine · Werk 497 von 1.871

A Scheutz difference engine installed in a government statistical office of 1859, an iron frame with horizontal rows of brass figure wheels and a printing mechanism at one end, a clerk's high sloping desk beside it, trays of freshly stereotyped number plates stacked at its foot, gas brackets on the wall above, a plain panelled wall behind, the floorboards bare, the room in desaturated greys with the brass warm against them, even flat light from directly overhead.
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