industrial
A brick tower with a copper dome, named for Margaret Cavendish's world, with Ada Lovelace's Analytical Engine filling the hall at its foot: brass columns of figure-wheels, a barrel of punched cards, the sound of a machine thinking. Its two tasks keep the city alive. In the raking-light rooms, scraped stones are read under oblique lamps and under light no one can see, until the writing under the Gloss comes back. And the Engine, fed with the Rota, calculates how fast the city forgets. The dome's ...
Located in Cité des Dames.