The Babbage Engine Exhibit opens May 10 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. The central artifact of the exhibit, a faithful construction of Englishman Charles Babbage's Difference ...
As you might expect from its name, the "Difference Engine" is a strangely difficult object to describe. You might start by imagining the side of a large crib with uprights ringed by small metal wheels ...
Calculating machines were sometimes used to compute and print the mathematical tables widely used by nineteenth century engineers, mathematicians and scientists. A small number of digital computing ...
Angel Lin plays Ada Lovelace, a math genius and daughter of the infamous poet Lord Byron, in “Ada and the Engine” at The Pear. Courtesy Mikenzie Gilbert Photography. Seeing “Ada and the Engine” is ...
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