| 11. | These shows were later to also influence Charles Babbage in his invention of the difference engine.
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| 12. | Nine years later, the Science Museum completed the printer Babbage had designed for the difference engine.
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| 13. | For a prototype difference engine, Babbage brought in Joseph Clement to implement the design, in 1823.
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| 14. | He is especially known for his work on the computer pioneer Charles Babbage and his Difference Engine.
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| 15. | This machine, which he constructed with his son Edvard Scheutz, was based on Charles Babbage's difference engine.
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| 16. | Babbage began in 1822 with what he called the difference engine, made to compute values of polynomial functions.
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| 17. | "Enginaughts " were originally the trained technicians that created, maintained, programmed, and used " difference engines " ( mechanical computers ).
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| 18. | A useful goad to meditation on the Whig interpretation is " The Difference Engine, " by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling.
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| 19. | The first one was an " automatic " mechanical calculator, his difference engine, which could automatically compute and print mathematical tables.
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| 20. | Indeed, the situation in Russia today has the inexorable technological momentum that is the real subject of " The Difference Engine ."
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