posted Tuesday, March 01, 2011 - 03:55 AM (#58448)
You're right, this is very, very cool. I can only imagine how much this cost to make a reality. Brilliant!
A Finished Babbage Difference Engine!
in News by DaveKellett
Monday, February 28, 2011 - 04:31 PM
Sheldonista Beau V. sent in this link...of a fully built Babbage difference engine. So, so rad. I had no idea anyone had ever completed one.
posted Tuesday, March 01, 2011 - 02:23 PM (#58451)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Myhrvold
The above is a link to the Wikipedia page on Nathan Myhrvold, who commissioned the building of his own Difference Engine No.2. The man in the above video is Doron Swade, who was head of the project to build the first engine for a museum in London. He's also written a book on the saga to do such. The link below is to a Youtube video of a panel where Swade and Myhrvold lecture on the engine at the Computer History Museum.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1sEowi1Txc
posted Tuesday, March 01, 2011 - 06:58 PM (#58453)
31 decimal digits? Kind of puts 64-bit computing into perspective.
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