By Jean-Francois Gauvin Functionless: science museums and the display of 'pure objects' By James Sumner Review: The thrilling adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: the (mostly) true story of the first computer, by Sydney Padua By Jim Bennett James Short and John Harrison: personal genius and public knowledge By Simon Schaffer Chronometers, charts, charisma: on histories of longitude By Seb Falk Review: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude By Florence Grant Reading, writing, drawing and making in the 18th-century instrument trade
