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Description: | [Calculation by George Bidder, 3p on 1 leaf. Pages bear holograph details by D. Turner and dated 1819 Aug 6, of a complicated mental calculation by Bidder; anonymous ms. notes of 1830 Oct 13 re Bidder's current position with an engineer named Walker (according to [Sir William?] Cubitt) and the talents of other boys with a similar gift; autograph of 1819 Aug 5 by George Bidder; two pencil portrait sketches of Bidder. With two newspaper clippings (mounted on one leaf), one of 1814, one of 1820 quoting the Salisbury Journal, both detailing Bidder's "arithmetical calculations" and "wonderful power of computation"] | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | Papers | Temporal: | 1814-1830 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Bidder, George Parker, 1806-1878 | Identifier: | 1982-83/2 | Go to resource |
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