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Crowley, Mary L. "The “Difference” in Babbage's Difference Engine." Mathematics Teacher 78, no. 5 (1985): 366–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/mt.78.5.0366.

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Have you ever wondered how mathematical tables were developed, who was interested in producing them, and what kinds of calculations were involved? Recently, I found myself asking these questions while reading a biography of Charles Babbage (1791 1871). Mathematician, scientist, economist, and inventor, Babbage was an important figure in nineteenth-century English society.

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Lindgren, Michael. "Differing differencing - with or without machinery." ITNOW 33, no. 5 (1991): 2–4. https://doi.org/10.1093/combul/33.5.2.

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Abstract In the long story of difference engines, Charles Babbage (1791-1871) played the leading role. To his supporters, the Difference Engine No 1 stood as a great monument over man's ingenuity and ability to mechanise all kinds of labour. To his enemies, the assembled fraction of the engine became the embodiment of the Utopian in his ideas. In this drama of invention there were also other actors, no less talented, whose performances for various reasons were overshadowed by Babbage's interpretation as the years went by1.

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Wilkes, M. V. "Charles Babbage and his world." Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 56, no. 3 (2002): 353–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2002.0188.

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Most people have heard something about Charles Babbage, F.R.S., whose work on computers in the nineteenth century was much ahead of its time. Babbage worked on two computing devices, neither of which he completed: the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine. It is the Analytical Engine that gives him a claim to major fame. Unfortunately, most of the details remained buried in his manuscript notebooks and were not unearthed until the modern computer age had begun. For that reason, it is rather overstating the case to describe him, as is often done, as the father of the computer. I shall not

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Hyman, Anthony. "Charles Babbage - computer pioneer." ITNOW 33, no. 5 (1991): 16–18. https://doi.org/10.1093/combul/33.5.16.

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Abstract 1991 is the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Babbage[1], the great pioneer of digital computing. The event is being celebrated by a postage stamp, many small exhibitions, a major conference on computing organised by the IEE to be held at Imperial College in July, and a full-sized working version of Babbage's second difference engine now being assembled at the Science Museum.

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Petrocelli, Carla. "“The Earth Calculus”: Babbage, tables, and the calculating machine in the study of geology." Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali 32, no. 2 (2021): 245–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12210-021-00988-0.

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AbstractCharles Babbage is best known as a pioneer of computer science, but his contributions to the study of the Earth are not as well known. A curious and tireless traveler, on one of his trips to Italy, he dwelt on the remains of the Temple of Serapis, located about one-hundred feet from the coast of the small bay near Pozzuoli, south-west of Naples. On his return to England, also using his Difference Engine, he developed a theory to explain the phenomena related to the area of Serapeo, accompanied by illustrations and mathematical calculations, aimed at explaining the geological phenomena

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Groce, Alex. "Passages." ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes 48, no. 4 (2023): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3617946.3617948.

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Sydney Padua's The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage violates the rules of Passages in a technical sense; the book was published in 2015, so cannot be a classic, right? I could excuse cheating on the grounds that covering this delightful book is so important that I can't wait until 2025. After all, I might be hit by a bus; ACM SIGSOFT might dissolve; rogue AI might go all Skynet and murder us all; less catastrophically, I might tire of doing these columns or you might tire of reading them. A much better excuse,however, is that Padua's book really dates from a throwaway cartoon she p

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Legato, Marianne J., Francoise Simon, James E. Young, Tatsuya Nomura, and Ibis Sánchez-Serrano. "Roundtable Discussion III: The Development and Uses of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: A Work in Progress." Gender and the Genome 4 (January 1, 2020): 247028971989870. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2470289719898701.

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Humans have devised machines to replace computation by individuals since ancient times: The abacus predated the written Hindu–Arabic numeral system by centuries. We owe a quantum leap in the development of machines to help problem solve to the British mathematician Charles Babbage who built what he called the Difference Engine in the mid-19th century. But the Turing formula created in 1936 is the foundation for the modern computer; it produced printed symbols on paper tape that listed a series of logical instructions. Three decades later, Olivetti manufactured the first mass-marketed desktop c

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LaViolette, Marc. "Was There a French Engine Before Babbage’s Difference Engine?" IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 46, no. 1 (2024): 62–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mahc.2024.3364900.

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Roegel, Denis. "Anecdotes: Prototype Fragments from Babbage's First Difference Engine." IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 31, no. 2 (2009): 70–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mahc.2009.31.

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Haecker, Ryan. "Sacramental Engines: The Trinitarian Ontology of Computers in Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine." Religions 13, no. 8 (2022): 757. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13080757.

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Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine can be recollected as a fossilized image of the first digital computer. It is essentially distinguished from all prior and analog computers by the transcription of the ‘mechanical notation’, the separation of the mnemonic ‘store’ from the cybernetic ‘mill’, and the infinite miniaturization of its component parts. This substitution of finite space for an accelerating singularity of time creates the essential rupture of the digital, in which a singular calculation of mechanical force stands opposed to the universal totality of space. Babbage’s criticism of Chr

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Idrus. "Halal Haram Cryptocurrency." Al-Tasyree: Jurnal Bisnis, Keuangan dan Ekonomi Syariah 13, no. 02 (2021): 113–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.59833/altasyree.v13i02.300.

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The invention of the computer which was originally a calculating machine (Difference Engine no. 1) which was discovered by Charles Babbage (1791-1871) is something very famous in the history of computer development and is the first automatic calculator. With the very rapid development of the digital world, in 1983 an American cryptography expert David Chaum used cryptographic electronic money called e-cash, and in 1995, he implemented it through Digichash, which became the initial form of collaboration between the digital world of computers and Money, which is a cryptographic electronic paymen

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Idrus. "Halal Haram Cryptocurrency." Al-Tasyree: Jurnal Bisnis, Keuangan dan Ekonomi Syariah 13, no. 02 (2025): 113–23. https://doi.org/10.59833/04yvn494.

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The invention of the computer which was originally a calculating machine (Difference Engine no. 1) which was discovered by Charles Babbage (1791- 1871) is something very famous in the history of computer development and is the first automatic calculator. With the very rapid development of the digital world, in 1983 an American cryptography expert David Chaum used cryptographic electronic money called e-cash, and in 1995, he implemented it through Digichash, which became the initial form of collaboration between the digital world of computers and Money, which is a cryptographic electronic payme

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Swade, D. D. "The Construction of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2." IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 27, no. 3 (2005): 70–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mahc.2005.45.

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Swade, Doron. "The World Reduced to NumberThe Works of Charles Babbage. Charles Babbage , Martin Campbell-KellyScience and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage. Charles Babbage , Anthony HymanGlory and Failure: The Difference Engines of Johann Müller, Charles Babbage, and Georg and Edvard Scheutz. Michael Lindgren , Craig G. McKay." Isis 82, no. 3 (1991): 532–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/355843.

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Bulow, Ralf, Michael Lindgren, and Craig G. McKay. "Glory and Failure: The Difference Engines of Johann Muller, Charles Babbage and Georg and Edvard Scheutz." Technology and Culture 29, no. 4 (1988): 956. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3105078.

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Bülow, Ralf. "Glory and Failure: The Difference Engines of Johann Muller, Charles Babbage and Georg and Edvard Scheutz by Michael Lindgren." Technology and Culture 29, no. 4 (1988): 956–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.1988.0080.

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W., J. W., and Michael Lindgren. "Glory and Failure: The Difference Engines of Johann Muller, Charles Babbag and Georg and Edvard Scheutz." Mathematics of Computation 58, no. 197 (1992): 454. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2153050.

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Winters, Jeffrey. "Remember the Adding Machine." Mechanical Engineering 125, no. 09 (2003): 50–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.2003-sep-2.

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This article illustrates research and development work in nanotechnology for manufacturing computers at the molecular level. Computers have gone from large and mechanical, like Babbage's Difference Engine, to molecular. Researchers have shown that carbon nanotubes can be strung across electrodes to make minute transistors. Beyond sheer density of data, the nanotube chips have another, perhaps even more important, potential advantage over their electronic rivals: the memory does not disappear when the power goes off. The tubes may be drawn to the electrode by an electrical attraction, but they

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Bryant, Tony. "Glory and Failure: The Difference Engines of Müller, Babbage and Scheutzby Michael Lindgren (translated by Craig G. McKay)(MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1990), pp. 414, $US45.00, ISBN 0-262-12146-8." Prometheus 9, no. 2 (1991): 400–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08109029108631963.

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Tweedale, Geoffrey. "Michael Lindgren. Glory and Failure: The Difference Engines of Johann Müller, Charles Babbage and Georg and Edvard Scheutz, translated by Craig C. McKay. Cambridge, Mass, and London: MIT Press, 1990. Pp. 414. ISBN 0-262-12146-8. £40.50." British Journal for the History of Science 24, no. 2 (1991): 261–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087400027254.

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"Sir John Herschel and the abandonment of Charles Babbage’s difference engine no. 1." Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 45, no. 2 (1991): 165–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.1991.0016.

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Charles Babbage (1791-1871) is often referred to as the forefather of the computer. However, none of his ambitious plans for mechanical ‘calculating engines’ were realized, and in this respect he died a disappointed and embittered man. Ironically, his work had no influence on the development of modern electronic computing, yet it is now recognized that he foreshadowed many of today’s computing techniques. Perhaps Babbage is best described as a prophet with honour. Recent research in the Herschel Archive at the Royal Society has shed new light on the Government’s decision to abandon Babbage’s ‘

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Acharya, Kamal. "History of computer." September 21, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13822112.

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In order to understand today’s computers, it is important to study how computers evolved through time by discussing some of the major achievements. This section deals with the history of computers and identifies the major technological achievements of the four computer generations.Humans needed devices that could be used to perform calculations as early as the period when they kept animals and started to trade with other people. They realized the need to calculate and to record information. Many people agree that the history of calculation began with the Abacus around 5000 B.C. in Egypt

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Hutton, D. M. "The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer." Kybernetes 31, no. 6 (2002). http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/k.2002.06731fae.009.

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Hammerman, Robin, and Anthony Pennino. "The Iconography of Ada Lovelace in Fictional Worlds." Imaginaires de l'IA 22 (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/11tfg.

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La figure d’Ada Lovelace a été une sorte de révélation pour ceux qui travaillent dans le domaine artistique. Elle a inspiré une réévaluation de la façon dont l'histoire de la science elle-même est racontée, dans une perspective qui reflète plus étroitement la réalité de ceux qui travaillent dans les disciplines des STIM (Science, technologie, ingénierie et mathématiques), comme un système de collaboration où la connaissance progresse grâce aux efforts du plus grand nombre, et non à l'effort d'un seul. À cet égard, Ada Lovelace apparaît à la fois comme une icône de l'émancipation globale des fe

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Mrudul, Borse Akash Ranajkar Parth Sakure* Vaibhavi Sidam Prof. Nikita Kapadnis. "Cloudroid." May 24, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7965470.

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<strong>Abstract: </strong> The Babbage Difference Engine, created in the 1800s, is considered the first computer ever built. Despite its historical significance, the machine’s memory storage capacity was quite limited, with just 675 bytes available. Fast forward to the present day, and technological advancements have progressed to the point where most of us carry smartphones in our pockets that boast storage capacities well beyond what the Babbage Difference Engine could ever have imagined. However, despite our smartphones being capable of storing more than 12 gigabytes of data, we stil

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Thompson, Jason, Ken S. McAllister, and Judd Ethan Ruggill. "Onward Through the Fog: Computer Game Collection and the Play of Obsolescence." M/C Journal 12, no. 3 (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.155.

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In Mardi and a Voyage Thither, novelist Herman Melville writes of the peculiar and startling confluence of memory, objects, valuation, and disfigurement that mark the collector of obsoletia. The story’s antiquary is the picture of perverse depletion, with a body “crooked, and dwarfed, and surmounted by a hump, that sat on his back like a burden” (328), his hut in shambles, and “the precious antiques, and curios, and obsoletes”—the objects of his collection—“strewn about, all dusty and disordered” (329). This unkempt display cum impromptu museum turns out to present a mere fraction of the curat

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