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	The Nineteenth Century in Print, 1833
		Colburn had acceded to these kind overtures, his wishes would have been eventually fulfilled." If we may judge from his actions, what his wishes were, we do not believe that, by taking such a course, they would have been fulfilled.
		Colburn scrupled not to inform the old subscribers to the memoir of his son, that it was already in press, when not a line of it was yet in manuscript.
		Colburn over his son, and not well pleased at the distribution made of his bounty, he wrote over to England to have Zerah taken from Westminster and placed under a private instructer, offering to Mr.
	users.lk.net /~stepanov/mnemo/zerae.html (2056 words)

	Vermont Community History: Cabot
		September 1, Zerah is born in Cabot to Abia and Betsy Colburn, the 5th of 8 children.
		Zerah and his father (who was a very ignorant man) had become entirely spoilt by the attention and money which had been bestowed upon them and by their impertinence and vanity made themselves very obnoxious to the other passengers.
		Zerah Colburn has excited much astonishment here and as they are unwilling just now to allow any cleverness to the Americans, it was said in some papers that he was a Russian.
	www.vermonthistory.org /community/pages/projects/cabot/TIMELINE.html (1009 words)

	Henry Colburn - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Colburn published in 1818 Evelyn's Diary, and in 1825 the Diary of Pepys, edited by Lord Braybrooke, paying £2200 for the copyright.
		In 1829 Richard Bentley (q.v.) was taken into partnership; and in 1832 Colburn retired, but set up again soon afterwards independently in Great Marlborough Street; his business was taken over in 1841 by Messrs Hurst and Blackett.
		Henry Colburn died on the 16th of August 1855, leaving property to the value of £35,000.
	79.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CO/COLBURN_HENRY.htm (192 words)

	MEMOIR.
		ZERAH COLBURN was born in the town of Cabot, county of Caledonia, and State of Vermont, on the first day of September, 1804.
		Colburn was advised to bend his course toward the principal cities of the Union, in order to obtain that ample encouragement which would probably attend his undertaking.
		Colburn culled on him, hoping from the interest he had formerly taken, that he might then be able to point out some course that would render it advantageous for him to remain in America.
	users.lk.net /~stepanov/mnemo/memoire.html (4039 words)

	Zerah Colburn
		COLBURN, Zerah, mathematical prodigy, born in Cabot, Vermont, 1 September, 1804; died in Norwich, Vermont, 2 March, 1840.
		Colburn and the earl caused the boy's removal from the school in 1819, and, in accordance with his father's suggestions, Zerah began to study for the stage.
		Colburn was employed as consulting engineer on many important constructions, and prepared numerous valuable papers in addition to his editorial labors.
	www.famousamericans.net /zerahcolburn (973 words)

	Zerah Colburn - LoveToKnow 1911
		ZERAH COLBURN (1804-1840), American mathematical prodigy, was born at Cabot, Vermont, on the 1st of September 1804.
		At a very early age he developed remarkable powers of calculating with extreme rapidity, and in 1810 his father began to exhibit him.
		His nephew, also named ZERAH COLBURN (1832-1870), was a well-known mechanical engineer; the editor successively of the Railroad Advocate, in New York, The Engineer, in London, and Engineering, in London; and the author of a work entitled The Locomotive Engine (1851).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Zerah_Colburn (172 words)

	Zerah Colburn: The Spirit of Darkness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"Zerah Colburn: The Spirit of Darkness" by John Mortimer is a book about Zerah Colburn, the American locomotive designer who was also a famous editor and publisher.
		Colburn committed suicide at age 38 in Belmont, Massachusetts, in 1870.
		This article about a biographical or autobiographical book is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zerah_Colburn:_The_Spirit_of_Darkness (92 words)

	[No title]
		Windsor COLBURN, Zerah Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States.
		Zerah COLBURN never published an arithmetic, though in his autobiography (Springfield, Massachusetts, 1833) he made known in part his methods.
		He [Zerah COLBURN] died on 02 March 1839 of consumption [tuberculosis] and was buried in Norwich Centre [Windsor County, Vermont].
	www.rockvillemama.com /windsor/colburnzerah.txt (997 words)

	Zerah Colburn
		At last a copy of Zerah Colburn's Locomotive engineering and the mechanism of railways (Ottley 2762) has been seen although it may be questioned whether the copy inspected at the British Library at St Pancras was seen by George Ottley as Ottley notes a location at the LSE.
		It was originally published by William Collins of Glasgow as a part-work and periodical publications in general appear to upset the otherwise orderly library activity at St Pancras (and elsewhere).
		Colburn began his publishing activity in the USA in 1851 and became Editor of The Engineer in London in 1858 before founding Engineering in 1866.
	www.steamindex.com /library/colburn.htm (716 words)

	Railroad Advocate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Railroad Advocate was a weekly newspaper started by Zerah Colburn, the locomotive designer and editor/publisher.
		The first issue appeared on November 11, 1854, when it was titled the Rail Road Advocate.
		It later became Colburn's Railroad Advocate, and then Holley's Railroad Advocate when it was part-owned by Alexander Lyman Holley.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Railroad_Advocate (127 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: People and Peoples (Z) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Zenobia occupied Syria, Egypt, and much of Asia Minor before the Roman emperor Aurelian defeated and captured her in 272.
		Zerah Colburn - known as the calculating boy - was an American academic.
		He was born in 1804 at Vermont, USA and died in 1840.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /CXX.HTM (739 words)

	Zerah Colburn: The Spirit of Darkness, by John Mortimer
		Zerah Colburn was a hard-drinking, drug addicted, bigamist.
		Colburn lived at a time when engineering journalism was at its zenith, because engineers were changing the lives of ordinary people.
		To order Zerah Colburn, The Spirit of Darkness, (£35) which is published in the UK by Arima Publishing, visit Amazon.co.uk
	www.garnett-keeler.com /zerah (277 words)

	Mental arithmetic
		Zerah Colburn's powers in calculating are described in [Mathematical Recreations and Essays (London, 1940).',2)" onmouseover="window.status='Click to see reference';return true">2], [American Journal of Psychology 18 (1907), 61-143.',12)" onmouseover="window.status='Click to see reference';return true">12] and [American Journal of Psychology 4 (1891), 1-59.',13)" onmouseover="window.status='Click to see reference';return true">13].
		Colburn is interesting for a number of reasons.
		Colburn is also interesting in that he was able to give an idea of how he carried out the calculations, the main method being by factorising the numbers concerned:-
	www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/HistTopics/Mental_arithmetic.html (3194 words)

	Encyclopedia Brunoniana
		He entered into partnership with Zerah Colburn, editor of the Gazette, and in due time took over the paper and renamed it Holley’s Railroad Advocate.
		In 1857, at the age of twenty-six, he gave up his paper and went with Colburn to Europe to study European railroads with a view to improving American railways and published a report on this subject.
		He was engaged as a writer on engineering subjects by Henry J. Raymond, editor of the New York Times, and contributed about 300 articles to the paper between 1858 and 1875.
	www.brown.edu /Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=H0180 (482 words)

	A Memoir of Zerah Colburn; Written by Himself. Containing an Account of the First discovery of his Remarkable Powers; ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		COLBURN, ZERAH, A Memoir of Zerah Colburn; Written by Himself.
		Frontispiece of Colburn as a young boy with a paddle and birdie in hand.
		His father took him to various institutions in America and then to Europe showing his feats and to help further his education.¦ At the back of his account are examples of the sort of questions that he was asked to calculate and also a small collection of verse that he wrote.
	www.antiqbook.com /boox/cum/30818.shtml (279 words)

	Colburn Family Crest
		The name Colburn is part of the ancient legacy of the Anglo Saxon tribes of Britain.
		Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: William Colburn of Boston who came in Winthrop's fleet in 1630.
		In the Colburn coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.fc/qx/colburn-family-crest.htm (629 words)

	COLBURN, HENRY (d. 1855) - Online Information article about COLBURN, HENRY (d. 1855)
		partnership; and in 1832 Colburn retired, but set up again soon afterwards in-dependently in See also:
		Marlborough Street; his business was taken over in 1841 by Messrs See also:
		Henry Colburn died on the 16th of See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /CLI_COM/COLBURN_HENRY_d_1855_.html (321 words)

	Biography of Hamilton
		A turning point though came in his life at the age of 12, when he met the American, Zerah Colburn.
		Colburn could perform amazing mental arithmetical feats and Hamilton joined in competitions of arithmetical ability with him.
		At the age of ten haven accidentally fallen in with a Latin copy of Euclid, he became deeply immersed into the study of Geometry.
	www.andrews.edu /~calkins/math/biograph/biohamil.htm (1194 words)

	The Hindu : Labour loving mathematician
		The humble instrument selected by Providence to redeem Hamilton, then 14 from the `useless pursuit of languages' was the American boy Zerah Colburn (1804-39) who at the time was attending the Westminster School, London.
		Hamilton acknowledged Colburn's influence in a letter written in August 1822 to his cousin Arthur.
		Hamilton never attended any school before going to the University but mastered mathematics by private study; besides his forced devotion to the classics in preparation for the entrance examination (1823) to Trinity College.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/seta/2002/01/03/stories/2002010300080400.htm (888 words)

	The Evolution of the American Locomotive.--Scientific American Supplement
		By HERBERT T. illustrates the Sandusky, the first locomotive built at the famous Rogers Locomotive Works, Paterson, N. At that time the name of the firm was Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor, and its founder Thomas Rogers, designed this engine.
		The late Zerah Colburn remarked that "Thomas Rogers maybe fairly said to have done more for the modern American locomotive than any of his contemporaries."
		There was a dispute between Howe and an apprentice named Williams, who claimed to have a share in the invention, but as we have not space to enter into the details of the controversy, the reader is referred to Colburn’s "Locomotive Engineering," where the matter is very ably dealt with.
	www.catskillarchive.com /rrextra/absa3.Html (3310 words)

	ASME 125th Anniversary: Alexander Lyman Holley, Founder, biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		He next worked for the New Jersey Locomotive Works in Jersey City, N.J., where he met rail editor Zerah Colburn from whom he bought and then published a journal called Holley's Railroad Advocate for several years, until the financial crash of 1857.
		He and Colburn later traveled through Europe to study railroad practices of the day.
		Their report, "American and European Railroad Practice," contained documented engineering data and complete drawings (of Holley's) that revealed ideas far in advance of American thinking, which in turn both disturbed and invigorated the rail industry.
	anniversary.asme.org /FounderHolleybio.shtml (1033 words)

	Mathematics Fun, Fiction, Function, Fantasy
		Zerah Colburn was born in 1804, the son of a Vermont farmer.
		By the age of eight, he was giving mathematical exhibitions in England where he was asked by a member of the audience to compute 8 to the 16th power.
		Zerah eventually stayed in England, received his formal education there, but strangely his incredible calculating abilities waned as he aged.
	poly.lausd.k12.ca.us /gate/mathfun.html (4730 words)

	Sir William Rowan Hamilton
		As an arithmetical calculator he was not only wonderfully expert, but he seems to have occasionally found a positive delight in working out to an enormous number of places of decimals the result of some irksome calculation.
		At the age of twelve he engaged Zerah Colburn, the American "calculating boy", who was then being exhibited as a curiosity in Dublin, and he had not always the worst of the encounter.
		But, two years before, he had accidentally fallen in with a Latin copy of Euclid, which he eagerly devoured; and at twelve he attacked Isaac Newton's Arithmetica universalis.
	www.nndb.com /people/951/000101648 (1831 words)

	Mortimer, John: Zerah Colburn the Spirit of Darkness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Zerah Colburn was a well-known nineteenth century locomotive engineer, journalist and publisher.
		Ans he was among 200 leading Americans nominated for New York University's Hall of Fame.
		But Colburn was an enigma, a dark and irascible man with a violent temper.
	www.forbesbookclub.com /bookpage.asp?prod_cd=IUW82 (123 words)

	Engineering: An Illustrated Weekly Journal (Vol Iv. From July to December, 1867) - COLBURN, ZERAH (CONDUCTED BY) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		From July to December, 1867) - COLBURN, ZERAH (CONDUCTED BY)
		COLBURN, ZERAH (CONDUCTED BY) Engineering: An Illustrated Weekly Journal (Vol Iv.
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	William Rowan Hamilton
		William showed prodigious learning abilities and, by the age of 5, had already learned Latin, Greek and Hebrew.
		His interest in mathematics was probably sparked when, aged 12, he was introduced to the American boy Zerah Colburn, whose prodigious feats of mental arithmetic were being exhibited in Dublin.
		Hamilton engaged him in tests of arithmetical ability, but usually came off second best.
	www.ucc.ie /academic/undersci/pages/sci_williamrowanhamilton.htm (895 words)

	Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		With an excellent example of how binders go wrong: Vol.
		Zerah Colburn's prodigious calculating abilities astounded audiences in America and Europe when he was a small child; as an adult, his skills waned, and he died young without having fulfilled the promise of his early days.
		Although Colburn does his best in this memoir to justify his father's having taken him away from family and native country, putting him on display for money, and denying him the opportunity to acquire more than bits and pieces of an education, regret plainly looms behind every line praising his father's devotion.
	www.prbm.com /interest/crime.shtml (1678 words)

	The Math Major Vol. 1, No. 11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		He was taught these subjects by his uncle, the Rev. James Hamilton, who was William's teacher for many years.
		William soon mastered additional languages but a turning point came in his life at the age of 12 when he met the American Zerah Colburn.
		At age 15 he started studying the works of Newton and Laplace.
	www.csufresno.edu /math/department/newsletter/vol1/v1n11.html (1010 words)

	OSV - Old Sturbridge Village Online Gift Shop - View Product No: 980736 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		With charming illustrations from artist Ginny Joyner and playful, informative text from author Cynthia Furlong Reynolds, M is for Maple Syrup is sure to become a favorite of children, teachers, and parents.
		From the Algonquins and Zerah Colburn to Ben & Jerry, this is a book for all Vermonters!
		The rhymes and text woven through A to Z teach children about the many wonders of the 14th state.
	www.osv.org /giftshop/showitem.php?PID=980736 (143 words)

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