Babbage, even with remarkably generous supportfor his time, could not produce his great arithmeticalmachine. His idea was sound enough, but constructionand maintenance costs were then too heavy. Had aPharaoh been given detailed and explicit designs of anautomobile, and had he understood them completely, itwould have taxed the resources of his kingdom to hajrefashioned the thousands of parts for a single car, andthat car would have broken down on the first trip toGiza.

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