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Health Constance Naden
While in India CN contracted a serious fever, which kept [her] a prisoner
Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son, 1890.
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for seven weeks. She had been ill before this, and had been barred from scientific studies for some weeks by a...
Reception Augusta Ada Byron
On the date designated as Ada Lovelace Day, a small exhibition opened at the Science Museum in London. The portraits, letters, and artefacts on display include a Jacquard loom of the punchcard type that...

Timeline

1899: The South Kensington Museum divided into...

National or international item

1899

The South Kensington Museum divided into the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum .
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
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Texts

Swade, Doron. Charles Babbage and his Calculating Engines. Science Museum, 1991.