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... Babbage - a name that is by now familiar to everyone who has studied computing , but who was until recently largely unknown - was born in 1792 , in Devon- shire . He was precocious and unusual : As a student at Cambridge he formed one ...
... Babbage - a name that is by now familiar to everyone who has studied computing , but who was until recently largely unknown - was born in 1792 , in Devon- shire . He was precocious and unusual : As a student at Cambridge he formed one ...
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... Babbage's mind the same immense power that pro- pelled locomotives might reasonably be expected to do in- tellectual work as well . In 1822 the thirty - year - old Babbage delivered a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society called " On ...
... Babbage's mind the same immense power that pro- pelled locomotives might reasonably be expected to do in- tellectual work as well . In 1822 the thirty - year - old Babbage delivered a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society called " On ...
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... Babbage perceived , one can imagine a machine capable of doing the job . The design for his Analytical Engine , in ... Babbage's downfall was technological rather than con- ceptual , rather like an inventor designing an automobile en ...
... Babbage perceived , one can imagine a machine capable of doing the job . The design for his Analytical Engine , in ... Babbage's downfall was technological rather than con- ceptual , rather like an inventor designing an automobile en ...
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