inria-00111244, version 1
Prototype Fragments from Babbage's First Difference Engine
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 31, 2 (2009) 70-75
Abstract: The Museum of the History of Science in Oxford owns a rare assembly related to Charles Babbage's first difference engine. But in addition to the conventional parts found in other fragments of the difference engine, this assembly also contains ``intruder parts'' that do not fit, but are closely related to the first difference engine. We believe that some of these parts are relics from a prototype of the first difference engine.
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- INRIA – CNRS : UMR7503 – Université Henri Poincaré - Nancy I – Université Nancy II – Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (INPL)
- Domain : Computer Science/Software Engineering
- Keywords : Babbage – difference engines
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