Labels:book | bulletin board | daily | earth | newspaper | plaything | reckoner | shelf | sky OCR: 488 SECTION A CHAPTER When did calculating devices begin to operate without human INFOWEBLINKS power? 1822 an English mathematician named Charles Babbage pro- At the Charles Babbage posed device called the Difference Engine that would operate using InfoWeb you'll find sketches steam power -cutting- -edge technology during Babbage's lifetime The photos, and original documents Difference Engine was intended to quickly and accurately calculate large describing the Analytical and tables of inumbers used for astronomical and engineering applications. The Difference programming Engines, notes bi including blueprints for the Difference Engine called for more than 4,000 precision- mathematician. Ada Byron. engineered levers, gears and wheels. Babbage worked on the Difference Engine until 1833, but ...
