5 Jan
2007
5 Jan
'07
2:21 a.m.
I have seen a TV program on the one they built.
It was beautifully made in brass and steel and what's more it worked!
The program said he did not finish it because he simply ran out of
money!
Rod Smallwood
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[mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of John Honniball
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Subject: Re: Purposefully fudged schematics
woodelf wrote:
To get back on topic about babbage's drawings,
from what I read it was
mechnical design that could not be produced with 18th
century
mechanical enginering.
I thought the Science Museum rebuild showed that it could be built with
19th century engineering? They deliberately didn't make it any more
accurate than Babbage could have, and they only found a couple of minor
difficulties. One was that it was too hard to turn the handle, so they
geared it down.
Surely something that, if Babbage had finished the Difference Engine,
he'd have done himself?
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John Honniball
coredump at gifford.co.uk