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Ron H said:Looks like Charles Babbage's difference engine.
Difference Engine 2 was built at the Science Museum to original designs, for the bicentennial of Babbage’s birth. It is the first of Babbage’s difference engines to be completed. It has seven orders of difference and will calculate to thirty one figures.
Dang! I thought I had found a photo of Babbage and his engine.Nigel Goodwin said:Or, to more correct, a modern museum model of it - Babbage was never able to get it made, as the technology of the time wasn't good enough. And the picture is actually 'difference engine 2' - kind of Windows Xp of it's day
This particular picture is from the London Science Museum.
Ron H said:Dang! I thought I had found a photo of Babbage and his engine.
!Nigel Goodwin said:That looks more like Barry Manilow?.
How's one of them called ? Only once a song made me cry - ...Ron H said:!
You mean the guy who writes the songs that make the grown men cry?
Ron H said:!
You mean the guy who writes the songs that make the grown men cry?