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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Analytical Engine, Difference Engine, the Difference Engine, Charles Babbage Institute, Babbage, Babbage, Dynamometer Car, Babbage, Walworth Road, Georgiana Babbage. Excerpt: Trial model of a part of the Analytical Engine, built by Babbage, as displayed at the Science Museum (London) The analytical engine, an important step in the history of computers, was the design of a mechanical general-purpose computer by English mathematician Charles Babbage . In its logical design the machine was essentially modern, anticipating the first completed general-purpose computers by about 100 years. It was first described in 1837. Babbage continued to refine the design until his death in 1871. Because of the complexity of the machine, the lack of project management science, the expense of its construction, and the difficulty of assessing its value by Parliament relative to other projects being lobbied for, the engine was never built. Some have said that the technological limitations of the time were a further obstacle to the construction of the machine, but this has been refuted by the "partial" construction of one of Babbage's machines by his son Henry, and now by the construction of one of his simpler designs by the British Science Museum. Indications are today that the machine could have been built successfully with the technology of the era if funding and political support had been stronger. Design Babbage's first attempt at a mechanical computing device was the difference engine, a special-purpose calculator designed to tabulate logarithms and trigonometric functions by evaluating finite differences to create approximating polynomials . During this project he realized that a much more general design was possible and started work designing the analytical engine. The input (programs and...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781155431895
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 74
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Weight: 122 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1155431898
  • Publisher Date: 04 May 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Analytical Engine, Difference Engine, the Difference Engine, Charles Babbage Institute, Babbage, Babbage, Dynamometer Car
  • Width: 229 mm


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