The famous Babbage "missing wooden model"

*A wooden model of WHAT? Was it really a model of an Analytical Engine? It's hard to imagine anyone lugging around a wooden model of an Analytical Engine, because the individual parts are quite small while the whole branching spidery ensemble of racks and towers would be as big as a freight car.

Even drawing a steampunk cartoon of the thing is next to impossible

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*In Turin they've been looking for the "wooden model." Not a splinter of it has ever shown up.

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