Analytical engine: History of computing hardware, Charles Babbage, Computer, Polynomial, Difference engine, Punched card, Arithmetic logic unit - Softcover

 
9786130775186: Analytical engine: History of computing hardware, Charles Babbage, Computer, Polynomial, Difference engine, Punched card, Arithmetic logic unit
Softcover
ISBN 10: 6130775180 ISBN 13: 9786130775186
Verlag: OmniScriptum, 2010

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The analytical engine, an important step in the history of computers, was the design of a mechanical general-purpose computer by the British mathematician Charles Babbage. In its logical design the machine was essentially modern, anticipating the first completed general-purpose computers by about 100 years. It was first described in 1837. Babbage continued to refine the design until his death in 1871. Because of the complexity of the machine, the lack of project management science, the expense of its construction, and the difficulty of assessing its value by Parliament relative to other projects being lobbied for, the engine was never built. Some have said that the technological limitations of the time were a further obstacle to the construction of the machine, but this has been refuted by the partial construction of one of Babbage's machines by his son Henry, and now by the construction of one of his machines by the British Science Museum Indications are today that the machine could have been built successfully with the technology of the era if funding and political support had been stronger

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The analytical engine, an important step in the history of computers, was the design of a mechanical general-purpose computer by the British mathematician Charles Babbage. In its logical design the machine was essentially modern, anticipating the first completed general-purpose computers by about 100 years. It was first described in 1837. Babbage continued to refine the design until his death in 1871. Because of the complexity of the machine, the lack of project management science, the expense of its construction, and the difficulty of assessing its value by Parliament relative to other projects being lobbied for, the engine was never built. Some have said that the technological limitations of the time were a further obstacle to the construction of the machine, but this has been refuted by the partial construction of one of Babbage's machines by his son Henry, and now by the construction of one of his machines by the British Science Museum Indications are today that the machine could have been built successfully with the technology of the era if funding and political support had been stronger

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Verlag
OmniScriptum
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
6130775180
ISBN 13 
9786130775186
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
100
Herausgeber
Miller Frederic P., Vandome Agnes F., McBrewster John
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