Passages from the Life of a Philosopher by Charles BABBAGE (1791 - 1871) Genre(s): Mathematics, Philosophy, Technology & Engineering Read by: Lynne T, amitsharma, Kathleen Moore, realisticspeakers, Ellies, Chris Cartwright, Availle, Gillian Hendrie, Stephen Harvey, Jon Scott Jones, Thomas Trask, Richard Garifo, ChadH94, Jane Bennett, Dale Grothmann, Colleen McMahon, ClaudiaSterngucker, William Allan Jones in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 19 - Experience Amongst Workmen 00:08:03 - 20 - Picking Locks and Deciphering 00:25:34 - 21 - Experience in St. Giles's 00:42:09 - 22 - Theatrical Experience 00:57:15 - 23 - Electioneering Experience 01:27:05 - 24 - Scene from a New After-Piece 01:58:56 - 25 - Experience at Courts 02:09:42 - 26 - Experience at Courts 02:40:50 - 27 - Railways 03:19:41 - 28 - Street Nuisances 04:02:34 - 29 - Wit 04:18:45 - 30 - Hints for Travellers 04:48:03 - 31 - Miracles 05:10:34 - 32 - Religion 05:31:41 - 33 - A Vision 06:04:04 - 34 - Various Reminiscences 06:21:07 - 35 - The Author's Cont­ri­bu­tions to Human Knowledge 06:43:37 - 36 - The Author's further Cont­ri­bu­tions to Human Knowledge Part 1 Some men write their lives to save themselves from ennui, careless of the amount they inflict on their readers. Others write their personal history, lest some kind friend should survive them, and, in showing off his own talent, unwittingly show them up. Others, again, write their own life from a different motive—from fear that the vampires of literature might make it their prey. I have frequently had applications to write my life, both from my countrymen and from foreigners. Some caterers for the public offered to pay me for it. Others required that I should pay them for its insertion; others offered to insert it without charge. One proposed to give me a quarter of a column gratis, and as many additional lines of eloge as I chose to write and pay for at ten-pence per line. To many of these I sent a list of my works, with the remark that they formed the best life of an author; but nobody cared to insert them. I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work. The remarkable circumstances attending those Calculating Machines, on which I have spent so large a portion of my life, make me wish to place on record some account of their past history. As, however, such a work would be utterly uninteresting to the greater part of my countrymen, I thought it might be rendered less unpalatable by relating some of my experience amongst various classes of society, widely differing from each other, in which I have occasionally mixed. This volume does not aspire to the name of an autobiography. It relates a variety of isolated circumstances in which I have taken part—some of them arranged in the order of time, and others grouped together in separate chapters, from similarity of subject. The selection has been made in some cases from the importance of the matter. In others, from the celebrity of the persons concerned ; whilst several of them furnish interesting illustrations of human character. - Summary by From the Preface More information: https://librivox.org/passages-from-the-life-of-a-philosopher-by-charles-babbage/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)

The Lake Mystery by Marvin DANA (1867 - 1926) Genre(s): Crime & Mystery Fiction Read by: Campbell Schelp in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 00 - Prologue 00:18:19 - 01 - Adventurers' Pact 00:39:04 - 02 - The Secretary 00:52:20 - 03 - The Assembling 01:05:47 - 04 - Eve of Battle 01:24:22 - 05 - The Search Begins 01:47:11 - 06 - The Sixth Sense 02:08:56 - 07 - Haphazard Questing 02:29:17 - 08 - In the Recess 02:49:03 - 09 - The Gold Song 03:04:21 - 10 - In the Wood 03:27:56 - 11 - The Shot 03:58:40 - 12 - The Secret Vault 04:15:45 - 13 - The Clue 04:42:53 - 14 - The Episode of the Launch 04:55:58 - 15 - The Chart 05:19:33 - 16 - The Hold 05:35:16 - 17 - Masters Again 05:48:01 - 18 - Dux Facti Femina 06:12:15 - 19 - In the Cavern 06:26:50 - 20 - The Events of a Night 06:51:43 - 21 - The First Pit When an old miser dies, he leaves behind valuable gold. Naturally, many people want it. But the miser has not made it easy, hiding the gold with cryptic clues. Saxe, the son of a former music student of the miser, leads the charge to find it along with some old friends before time runs out and the money goes to the miser's blood relatives. But when an evil engineer tries to sneak in and find the gold for himself, Saxe and his crew must try to find the gold while evading the engineer. Who will find the gold first?. (Campbell Schelp) More information: https://librivox.org/the-lake-mystery-by-marvin-dana/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)