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  • As I mentioned on April 6, 2003, Doron Swade's Babbage biography The Cogwheel Brain describes how Analytical Engine reconstructors found that a carrying mechanism built according to the Babbage blueprints would rotate in the wrong direction and crash the machine, so they had to modify the design in what they hoped was the right spirit.

    Strange gears Ray Girvan 2004

  • As I mentioned on April 6, 2003, Doron Swade's Babbage biography The Cogwheel Brain describes how Analytical Engine reconstructors found that a carrying mechanism built according to the Babbage blueprints would rotate in the wrong direction and crash the machine, so they had to modify the design in what they hoped was the right spirit.

    Archive 2004-06-01 Ray Girvan 2004

  • Sun and Cogwheel and armored fist of Security, pass back of the Octagon

    Ministry of Disturbance H. Beam Piper 1934

  • Cogwheel of the Empire on the wall behind him, but on the breast of his black tunic he wore the badge of his family, a silver planet with three silver moons.

    Ministry of Disturbance H. Beam Piper 1934

  • The movable furniture varied according to occasion; at present, it consisted of the bare desk at which they sat, the three chairs they occupied, and the three secretary-robots, their rectangular black casts blazened with the Sun and Cogwheel of the Empire.

    A Slave is a Slave H. Beam Piper 1934

  • "This year, other conquerors have come to Aditya, here to plant another banner, the Sun and Cogwheel of the Galactic Empire, and I blush to say it, we are as helpless against these conquerors as were the miserable barbarians and their wretched serfs whom our fathers conquered seven hundred and sixty-two years ago, whose descendants, until this black day, had been our slaves."

    A Slave is a Slave H. Beam Piper 1934

  • Imperial Sun and Cogwheel flag, and began transmitting views of its interior up to the _Empress Eulalie_.

    A Slave is a Slave H. Beam Piper 1934

  • This is the Cogwheel pattern from the 3rd treasury.

    Craft Gossip 2009

  • Deserve well of us, and prosper under the Sun and Cogwheel. "

    A Slave is a Slave H. Beam Piper 1934

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