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Techlab - Charles Babbage

rustyrocket wrote 2 days ago: Hop on over to the BBC to see a rather impressive comic strip which explores the legacy of Charles B … more →

Tags: Links, cartoon strip, BBC

Techlab Starring Charles Babbage

engineerlegend wrote 3 days ago: Hop on over to the BBC to see a rather impressive comic strip which explores the legacy of Charles B … more →

Tags: Links, Spotted, Comic, Strip

Capital City

danielweiresq wrote 3 months ago: The first trip of the year, to London. We arrived mid morning on Saturday (after a somewhat circuit … more →

Tags: Museums, Travel, Graffito, I Like, London, The British Musuem, anthony gormley, Great Cour Roof, Covent Garden

On Dusting Off Marx

compositionfrombelow wrote 3 months ago: That is to say, I analyze how the information age, far from transcending the historic conflict betwe … more →

Tags: The University, taylorism, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Marc Bousquet, Marxism, Karl Marx, affective labor, Digital Capitalism, Jacques Derrida

Nerdy Kewlness

Mike wrote 4 months ago: On the off chance you haven’t figured it out yet, I am a Nerd. No, really. I am not as super g … more →

Tags: top ten nerds, Nikola Tesla, alan turing, Bill Gates, Wil Wheaton, Rob Malda, Linus Torvalds, Albert Einstein, Steve Wozniak

Computers: Who Invented The Computer?

strawberriesandcream24 wrote 4 months ago: This is a question that many people want to know so who did invent the computer? Well, from my resea … more →

Tags: Computers, technology, invent the computer, invented computer, invented computers, invented the computer, who invented the computer

Menneske og maskin

goenna wrote 5 months ago: Tenk for en stor omveltning som har skjedd i samfunnet i løpet av vårt korte liv. Min generasjon, vi … more →

Tags: alan turing, Computer

Hump-Day History: The British Association

Will Thomas wrote 7 months ago: In 1830, Britain was on the cusp of one of its most famous eras of scientific activity.  The year be … more →

Tags: Hump-Day History, Arnold Thackray, William Whewell, Jack Morrell, David Brewster, Samuel Coleridge, William Vernon Harcourt

You wish your calculator was this badass1 comment

playswithdice wrote 8 months ago: The Babbage difference engine is just one example of how awesome math used to look. Thinking of math … more →

Tags: Contains videos to distract you from lack of content, babbage engine, difference engine, Math

Job opening: Lucasian Chair of Mathematics

Dave Richeson wrote 8 months ago: There is going to be a new faculty member in the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge Universi … more →

Tags: Math, Lucasian Chair of Mathematics, Stephen Hawking, Cambridge University, Isaac Newton, Isaac Barrow, Paul Dirac, Honors

What the fuck is a blog anyway?

thetombstone wrote 9 months ago: So a blog seems to be some kind of Internet diary thing, yeah? Well when I first heard about them I … more →

Tags: Stuff, Dragons' Den, My Chemical Romance, Al Gore, Boards of Canada, orbital, Depeche Mode, ian curtis, Syd Barrett

Nuevas: Exposición sobre the Babbage´s engine !

lospixeleros wrote 9 months ago: Ahora, esta en la web montada una expo, sobre la maquina de Babbage, super bien documentada, vale la … more →

Tags: computer history, Analytical Engine, difference engine

Tarjetas perforadas...justo en la mitad de las historias!

lospixeleros wrote 9 months ago: Para ver mas sobre los modelos de tarjetas perforadas en telares y computadores click sobre la image … more →

Tags: Looms History, difference engine, jacquard, Jacquard loom, punch cards

sobre la historia de los computadores

lospixeleros wrote 9 months ago: Aquí encontraras datos curiosos sobre el surgimiento de los ordenadores, has click sobre la imagen p … more →

Tags: computer history, difference engine, pre-computer, Computer, History

23: Ideas for Speculative Fiction

terencekuch wrote 10 months ago: Charles Babbage, an inventor of the computer, was a fount of ideas, mostly impractical given the sta … more →

Tags: Fiction, mechanical telegraph, speaking-tubes

"The Radiated Library"1 comment

augustcjohnson wrote 1 year ago: My friend Jake from Insider Agitation posted this on my Myspace page and I’m really interested … more →

Tags: difference engine, insider agitation, Internet, Paul Otlet, the radiated library, The Televised Book

Links - 17th June 2008

Simon Kendrick wrote 1 year ago: To round off my epic link update, here are the miscellaneous links that I find interesting. Perhaps … more →

Tags: Links, Album Artwork, health, New York, rotherhithe tunnel

Hardware Profile

maguffyn wrote 1 year ago: I have not had time to post much (read anything) to the blog in a while- this is not because I have … more →

Tags: IT, Maguffyn, fledermaus, toshiba r500, Nokia E51

14th June 1822 - Charles Babbage proposes building computer

mph wrote 1 year ago: Charles Babbage submits a paper to the Royal Society with the title: Note on the application of mach … more →

Tags: technology, today, difference engine


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