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4 days ago · Charles Babbage: Analytical Engine A portion (completed 1910) of Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. Only partially built at the time of his death in 1871, this portion contains the “mill” (functionally analogous to a modern computer's central processing unit) and a printing mechanism.
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5 days ago · Charles Babbage's Difference Engine I and II were early examples of this type of machine, Later examples were the differential analyzers of the 1930′s. The early code breaking machines of the Second World War (the Bombes and the Colossus Mk I) and the ABC were also in this class.
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4 days ago · The close relationship between the device and the program became apparent some 20 years later, with Charles Babbage’s invention of the first computer. Computer - History, Technology, Innovation: A computer might be described with deceptive simplicity as “an apparatus that performs routine calculations automatically.”.
4 days ago · In fact, the original name for ENIAC was Electronic Difference Analyzer, and it was built to perform much like Babbage’s Difference Engine. After the war, efforts focused on fulfilling the idea of a general-purpose computing device.
4 days ago · Lovelace’s most significant contribution emerged from her collaboration with Charles Babbage, the inventor of the Analytical Engine. This early mechanical computer, though never completed, captured Lovelace’s imagination.
6 hours ago · Here you can also see the parallel to our discussion about washing machines and computers: Babbage’s Analytical Engine was a system that was developed exclusively to run software, whereas the loom of the silk weaver Joseph-Marie Jacquard was, like the washing machine, a device that can basically fulfill its function without software, but which becomes more versatile and easier to use through ...
4 days ago · Collaborating with Charles Babbage on his Analytical Engine, Lovelace is also notable for being the first to foresee potential in computing beyond mere calculation, as she reasoned that such an engine could easily work with entities other than just quantities, and could be applied to music, science, or have many other general uses.
