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==Babbage stuff brought from [[history of computing]]== | |||
Someone please integrate the stuff below into the [[Charles Babbage]] article. We don't need the dirty details in 2 different places. [[User:Pat Palmer|Pat Palmer]] 16:29, 14 May 2007 (CDT) | |||
<pre> | |||
It would take [[Charles Babbage]], born on December 26, | |||
1971 and inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society to | |||
develop the first real successful automatic calculating | |||
machine | |||
<ref>{{cite web| | |||
url=http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/babbage.html| | |||
title=Lemelson-MIT Program, Inventor of the Week Archive| | |||
date=February 2003|accessdate=2007-05-14}}</ref>. | |||
In 1821, Babbage developed the Difference Engine No. 1, | |||
which was a functional machine designed to compile mathematical | |||
tables based on polynomial caculation. | |||
<ref>{{cite web| | |||
url=http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~ped/teachadmin/histsci/htmlform/lect4.html| | |||
title=History of Computation|author=Dunne, Paul E.|accessdate=2007-05-14}}</ref>. | |||
The difference engine's physical algorithm was based on a | |||
mathematical technique known as the Method of Differences, | |||
which Babbage contributed work on. Unfortunately only a | |||
fragment of the machine would ever come to fruitition due | |||
to various financial disputes and accusations of fund | |||
mismanagement from the British Government. | |||
More importantly, the machine was never fully developed | |||
due to Babbage's realization of a more improved machine | |||
called the Analytical Engine. Functionally, the Analytical | |||
machine was capable of various algorithmic operations that | |||
were broken down into basic algebraic operations. Two cards | |||
would be used to program the system: the first would detail | |||
what operations were required to be performed, and the second | |||
would contain the values to be operated on. In this sense, | |||
the Analytical Machine was much like a computer, having an | |||
input(the algorithm as described on a card), a processor(the | |||
machine), an output(the result), and memory(using a storage | |||
method--the cards themselves). | |||
Like the pascaline, both the Difference and Analytical | |||
Engines relied on series of cogs and gears to compute values. | |||
</pre> |
Latest revision as of 05:08, 26 September 2007
Babbage stuff brought from history of computing
Someone please integrate the stuff below into the Charles Babbage article. We don't need the dirty details in 2 different places. Pat Palmer 16:29, 14 May 2007 (CDT)
It would take [[Charles Babbage]], born on December 26, 1971 and inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society to develop the first real successful automatic calculating machine <ref>{{cite web| url=http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/babbage.html| title=Lemelson-MIT Program, Inventor of the Week Archive| date=February 2003|accessdate=2007-05-14}}</ref>. In 1821, Babbage developed the Difference Engine No. 1, which was a functional machine designed to compile mathematical tables based on polynomial caculation. <ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~ped/teachadmin/histsci/htmlform/lect4.html| title=History of Computation|author=Dunne, Paul E.|accessdate=2007-05-14}}</ref>. The difference engine's physical algorithm was based on a mathematical technique known as the Method of Differences, which Babbage contributed work on. Unfortunately only a fragment of the machine would ever come to fruitition due to various financial disputes and accusations of fund mismanagement from the British Government. More importantly, the machine was never fully developed due to Babbage's realization of a more improved machine called the Analytical Engine. Functionally, the Analytical machine was capable of various algorithmic operations that were broken down into basic algebraic operations. Two cards would be used to program the system: the first would detail what operations were required to be performed, and the second would contain the values to be operated on. In this sense, the Analytical Machine was much like a computer, having an input(the algorithm as described on a card), a processor(the machine), an output(the result), and memory(using a storage method--the cards themselves). Like the pascaline, both the Difference and Analytical Engines relied on series of cogs and gears to compute values.
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