"Difference Engine Mechanical Computer" aus Legos zusammen gebaut
Mein Kollege und Kommunikation@gesellschaft-Mit-Herausgeber Jan Schmidt meinte, die folgende Geschichte sei eine Erwähnung in unserem Forschungskolleg-Weblog wert. Wohl wahr.
Bei Boing Boing - A directory of wonderwul things findet sich nämlich ein Hinweis auf Andrew Carols aus Legos zusammengebauten Nachbau einer Art Vorform der heutigen Personal Computers:
"Before the day of computers and pocket calculators all mathematics was done by hand. Great effort was expended to compose trigonometric and logarithmic tables for navigation, scientific investigation, and engineering purposes.
In the mid-19th century, people began to design machines to automate this error prone process. Many machines of various designs were eventually built. The most famous of these machines is the Babbage Difference Engine."
Bei BoingBoing ("Difference Engine mechanical computer made from legos") heißt es über die Maschine und ihren Erbauer:
"An enterprising hacker has created a working "difference engine" -- a mechanical calculator first attempted in 19th Century by Charles Babbage -- out of legos. The difference engine was immortalized in the William Gibson/Bruce Sterling collaboration of the same name, and it's a perpetual source of hacker fascination (Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, financed the project and invented the idea of software for it because she was interested in handicapping horse races). Though Babbage was never able to get his design working, London's science museum did build a Babbage Engine that worked, thanks to the greater precision of twentieth-century machining techniques.
Andy Carol is a Lego builder who created a working Difference Engine in legos, though his machine "only" solves second- and third-order polynomials to three or four digits. The site contains fascinating detail about the workings of Difference Engines and Carol's implementation thereof."
Auf der Webseite von Andrew Carol finden sich Hinweise darauf, wie das Ganze funktioniert sowie weitere Bilder. Ausserdem werden uns noch einige Updates versprochen.
Bei Boing Boing - A directory of wonderwul things findet sich nämlich ein Hinweis auf Andrew Carols aus Legos zusammengebauten Nachbau einer Art Vorform der heutigen Personal Computers:
"Before the day of computers and pocket calculators all mathematics was done by hand. Great effort was expended to compose trigonometric and logarithmic tables for navigation, scientific investigation, and engineering purposes.
In the mid-19th century, people began to design machines to automate this error prone process. Many machines of various designs were eventually built. The most famous of these machines is the Babbage Difference Engine."
Bei BoingBoing ("Difference Engine mechanical computer made from legos") heißt es über die Maschine und ihren Erbauer:
"An enterprising hacker has created a working "difference engine" -- a mechanical calculator first attempted in 19th Century by Charles Babbage -- out of legos. The difference engine was immortalized in the William Gibson/Bruce Sterling collaboration of the same name, and it's a perpetual source of hacker fascination (Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, financed the project and invented the idea of software for it because she was interested in handicapping horse races). Though Babbage was never able to get his design working, London's science museum did build a Babbage Engine that worked, thanks to the greater precision of twentieth-century machining techniques.
Andy Carol is a Lego builder who created a working Difference Engine in legos, though his machine "only" solves second- and third-order polynomials to three or four digits. The site contains fascinating detail about the workings of Difference Engines and Carol's implementation thereof."
Auf der Webseite von Andrew Carol finden sich Hinweise darauf, wie das Ganze funktioniert sowie weitere Bilder. Ausserdem werden uns noch einige Updates versprochen.
kschoenberger - 15. Feb, 08:35
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