NATS 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Difference Engine
31 Mar 2016
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The result of many disconnected inventions and ideas. Some of these inventions converges in the 20th century to create the digital computer. Developed over 2000 years ago by the chinese. A manual device to make everyday calculations easier. First in a long line and devices and machines developed during the century to enable calculations. My friend herschel, calling upon me, brought with him the calculations of the computers, and we commenced the tedious process of verification. After a time many discrepancies occurred and at one point these discordances were so numerous that i exclaimed i wish to god these calculations had been executed by steam . He referred to the steam because steam was the only source of energy in his. He got a lot of money to build the machine to make the calculations. The british colony was crying for a new way to make the calculations for the calculations that many have made mistakes on.
