Timeline for What is Charles Babbage referring to when he talks about the 'College of Laputa'?
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| May 17, 2020 at 19:43 | comment | added | Quuxplusone | Also, for the record, the "lamp of (Sir Humphry) Davy" was a lamp designed for coal-miners, which was enclosed in a fine wire mesh to prevent any flame from passing through and igniting coal-damp vapors in the mine. The mesh permitted air to pass through while quite literally "sifting" out the fire! I'm not sure about "the refuse of fish," but it might be a reference to whale oil. | |
| May 17, 2020 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackHistory/status/1262035173320855553 | ||
| May 16, 2020 at 20:40 | history | became hot network question | |||
| May 16, 2020 at 17:13 | answer | added | Mary | timeline score: 16 | |
| May 16, 2020 at 14:37 | vote | accept | wireman | ||
| May 16, 2020 at 13:42 | comment | added | Pieter Geerkens | @SteveBird: When i was little, a popular restaurant about 20 minutes drive away called "Gulliver's Pancake House" had large murals of Gulliver in the lands of the Lilliputians, Brobdingnagians, and Laputians. A great place for a small child to learn both classic English literature and politics. Sadly it closed many years ago, without preserving those wonderful murals. | |
| May 16, 2020 at 13:22 | answer | added | Pieter Geerkens | timeline score: 24 | |
| May 16, 2020 at 13:02 | comment | added | Steve Bird | Possibly a reference to Swift's "Voyage to Laputa" - the flying island of Laputa is "a kingdom devoted to the arts of music and mathematics but unable to use these for practical ends". | |
| May 16, 2020 at 12:47 | comment | added | gktscrk | Looks straightforward: synonym to 'blind leading the blind', possibly more apt for English SE? | |
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| May 16, 2020 at 12:40 | history | asked | wireman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |