In October 2010, John Graham-Cumming started a campaign to raise funds by " public subscription " to enable serious historical and academic study of Babbage's plans, with a view to then build and test a fully working virtual design which will then in turn enable construction of the physical Analytical Engine.

Boiled leather, sometimes called cuir bouilli, was a historical construction material for armour.

Dynamite is mainly used in the mining, quarrying, construction, and demolition industries, and it has had some historical usage in warfare.

As they worked, construction teams came upon an abandoned set of rooms containing 25, 000 historical items ; these were incorporated into the rest of the structure to add a new exhibition zone.

* Boiled leather, a historical construction material

Such lutes were heavily built with construction similar to classical guitars, with fan bracing, heavy tops, fixed frets, and lined sides, all of which are anachronistic to historical lutes.

* Jew's harp: An instrument often known for its historical purpose for men " serenading " their sweethearts, It even went to the extent of being repeatedly banned for its " endangerment on female virtue ", it is also believed that it was banned because of its construction of silver, and due to the great demand on silver in the 19th Century Austria this was another reason for its outlawing.

The hallmarks of the traditional design are simplicity, very low cost and do-it-yourself construction, leading to its historical association with lower economic classes.

The construction of new airports or addition of runways to existing airports, is often resisted by local residents because of the effect on countryside, historical sites, local flora and fauna.

Although the exact date of the construction of the garden is not clear, historical evidence suggests it was constructed during the Seljuk Dynasty on the orders of the celebrated Seljuk monarch Sanjar.

Without copying any one historical model, and without compromising its authentic stone-on-stone construction by using modern steel girders, Saint John the Divine is an example of the 13th century High Gothic style of northern France.

Some fanciful accounts regarding the construction of the missions claimed that underground tunnels were incorporated in the design, to be used as a means of emergency egress in the event of attack ; however, no historical evidence ( written or physical ) has ever been uncovered to support these wild assertions.

The Archaeological Crypt of the Parvis Notre-Dame was built in 1965 to protect a range of historical ruins, discovered during construction work and spanning from the earliest settlement in Paris to the modern day.

A slow renewal of the city occurred in the 18th century with the end of the Spanish dominion and the construction of many refined houses and churches characterising the main streets of the historical centre.

Before 1976 the federal tax code favored new construction rather than the reuse of existing, sometimes historical, structures.

The period between the construction of the Second Temple in 515 BCE and its destruction by the Romans in 70 CE witnessed major historical upheavals and significant religious changes that would affect most subsequent Western ( or Abrahamic ) religions.

The name " pin oak " is possibly due to the many small, slender twigs, but may also be from the historical use of the hard wood for pins in wooden building construction ( Harlow 1942 ).

The county was the site of historical events at Mendota that defined the state's future, including providing materials for the construction of Fort Snelling across the river and the signing of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux which ceded land from the native Dakota nation for the Minnesota Territory.

In the historical period of harpsichord construction ( up to about 1800 ) plectra were made of sturdy feather quills, usually from crows or ravens.

* Brysiewicz, Joseph W. Chicago's metropolitan fringe: Lake Villa, Illinois: the construction of multiple historical narratives Forest, Illinois: Lake Forest College, 2001.

To maintain the historical feel of the town and protect the architectural features, the town has created a Historic Preservation Commission which reviews construction on houses in a historic district.

This encouraged the construction of several other brick buildings, including the Howard Dickinson House, now a historical site.

The historical crescent, which includes the French Quarter and was one of the few places where settlement was possible before the construction of the levee system, did not flood during Hurricane Katrina.

This historical document had references to the construction and the architecture of palaces during the era of Mansur Shah of Malacca | Sultan Mansur Shah, who ruled from 1458 to 1477.

Analysis of the ratio of < sup > 18 </ sup > O to < sup > 16 </ sup > O in the shells of the Colorado Delta clam was used to assess the historical extent of the estuary in the Colorado River Delta prior to construction of upstream dams.

While these writings display some limited continuities with the earlier medical ideas known from the Vedas, historians have been able to demonstrate direct historical connections between early Ayurveda and the early literature of the Buddhists and Jains.

In this theory, killing one's grandfather would result in the disappearance of oneself, history would erase all traces of the person's existence, and the death of the grandfather would be caused by another means ( say, another existing person firing the gun ); thus, the paradox would never occur from a historical viewpoint.

The death of the deposed and imprisoned king Eric XIV in 1577 is usually said to have come from eating a bowl of poisoned pea soup ; a 20th century investigation of his remains indeed found traces of arsenic, and there is historical evidence that his brother John intended to poison him, but the tradition about the pea soup as a vessel for the poison has been found impossible to confirm.

In some rare cases, potash can be formed with traces of organic materials such as plant remains, and this was the major historical source for it before the industrial era.

No historical, archaeological, or above all linguistic traces have been found to date that confirm this official history.

The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906.

In Norway, author Henry Notaker ( in the encyclopedia Apetittleksikon ) states that the earliest historical traces are from the late 18th century in the southeastern region of the country.

Many cultures show traces of prehistoric human sacrifice in their mythologies and religious texts, but ceased the practice before the onset of historical records.

While Indo-European peoples mainly were patriarchal and patrilineal, certain ancient myths have been argued to expose ancient traces of matrilineal customs that existed before historical records.

The first traces of historical Birmans go back to a Mme Leotardi in the city of Nice in France.

A Study of History is the 12-volume magnum opus of British historian Arnold J. Toynbee, finished in 1961, in which the author traces the development and decay of all of the major world civilizations in the historical record.

It is also important to the contemporary adherents of Zoroastrianism, in that it traces the historical links between the beginnings of the religion with the death of the last Zoroastrian ruler of Persia during the Muslim conquest.

While legend traces this statue to India, its rich historical records dates its finding in Cambodia in the 15th century, moved to Laos in the 16th century and then to Vientiane where it remained for 215 years, and finally to Thailand in the 18th century.

Gimbutas maintained that the " earth mother " group continues the paleolithic figural tradition discussed above, and that traces of these figural traditions may be found in goddesses of the historical period.

The appearance of this book, which traces the development of the English constitution from the Teutonic invasions of Britain till 1485, marks a distinct step in the advance of English historical learning.

The Last Aztec, part historical film and part road movie, was aired in 2006 and follows Pierre as he traces the advance of the Spanish conquistadors toward the Aztec capital.

The community with the oldest historical roots is the monastery on Nuns ' Island, Galway, which traces its history back to the monastery in Gravelines.

The Nazis destroyed traces of Polish culture, destroying historical records, monuments, and buildings.

Modern scholarship on the Talmud has a spectrum of views from Joseph Klausner, R. Travers Herford and Peter Schäfer who see some traces of a historical Jesus in the Talmud, to the views of Johann Maier, and Jacob Neusner who consider that there are little or no historical traces and texts have been applied to Jesus in later editing, and others such as Boyarin ( 1999 ) who argue that Jesus in the Talmud is a literary device used by Rabbis to comment on their relationship to and with early Christians.

The Bauls themselves attribute their lack of historical records to their reluctance to leave traces behind.

Because the emergence of language is located so far back in human prehistory, the relevant developments have left no direct historical traces ; nor can comparable processes be observed today.

The historical consciousness that becomes visible in their work is a significant rupture in our thinking about the past ... Human agency was a central element in the historical thought of Machiavelli and Guicciardini, but they did not have a modern notion of individuality ... They started to disentangle historiography from its rhetorical framework, and in Guicciardini ’ s work we can observe the first traces of a critical historical method.