But Babbage's machine had never been conceived or workable without Ada Byron Lovelace's equations and notes, she corrected Babbage's flawed calculations :) Ana
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 1:29 PM, marc garrett <[email protected] > wrote: > What if Babbage..? > > Written by Mike James. > > What if the computer had been invented 100 years earlier, in Victorian > times? > > This isn’t a silly idea. > > Charles Babbage had conceived of the basic principles of a stored > digital computer in 1833 - and no I’m not talking of a glorified > calculator. This was the real thing, CPU, memory and programs - and it > could have been built. > > If you visit the Science Museum in London you can see a working model of > Babbage’s “Difference Engine”. It looks like a beautiful work of > precision engineering and yet it was built using engineering tolerances > that were available at the time. Babbage never built his difference > engine, although others did build machines like it during his life time. > > http://www.i-programmer.info/babbages-bag/304-what-if-babbage.html > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- http://www.twitter.com/caravia158 http://www.scoop.it/t/art-and-activism/ http://www.scoop.it/t/food-history-and-trivia http://www.scoop.it/t/gender-issues/ http://www.scoop.it/t/literary-exiles/ http://www.scoop.it/t/museums-and-ethics/ http://www.scoop.it/t/urbanism-3-0 http://www.scoop.it/t/postcolonial-mind/ mobil/cell +4670-3213370 "When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return. — Leonardo da Vinci
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