Travel Tips
Feb. 10th, 2010 12:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petardierFrom "Passages in the Life of a Philosopher" by Charles Babbage. Yes, he's the same Babbage who invented the Difference Engine, the world's first programmable computer.
"It is always advantageous for a traveller to carry with him anything of use in science or in art if it is of a portable nature and still more so if it has also the advantage of novelty At the time I started on a lengthened tour the stomach pump had just been invented It appeared to give promise of great utility I therefore arranged in a small box the parts of an instrument which could be employed either as a syringe a stomach pump or for cupping As a stomach pump it was in great request from its novelty and utility I had many applications for permission to make drawings of it to which I always most willingly acceded."
Maybe I can adapt my hiking water filter to do this?
You can read more here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=Fa1JAAAAMAAJ&dq=charles%20babbage%20passages%20live%20philosopher&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q=&f=false
The part where he's in a volcano timing some micro-eruptions with his pocket watch so he can rush in and get lava samples (starts pg 214) must be read to be believed.
"It is always advantageous for a traveller to carry with him anything of use in science or in art if it is of a portable nature and still more so if it has also the advantage of novelty At the time I started on a lengthened tour the stomach pump had just been invented It appeared to give promise of great utility I therefore arranged in a small box the parts of an instrument which could be employed either as a syringe a stomach pump or for cupping As a stomach pump it was in great request from its novelty and utility I had many applications for permission to make drawings of it to which I always most willingly acceded."
Maybe I can adapt my hiking water filter to do this?
You can read more here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=Fa1JAAAAMAAJ&dq=charles%20babbage%20passages%20live%20philosopher&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q=&f=false
The part where he's in a volcano timing some micro-eruptions with his pocket watch so he can rush in and get lava samples (starts pg 214) must be read to be believed.
