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Charles Babbage
- aerovistae 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates
- tawayallday 11y agofun story - cto of my old job had a mug with a picture of babage on it that he was given as a gift or an award or something. he was very proud of it, so naturally we (tech team) stole it, hid it for a month or two, created the same image that was on the mug in photoshop and ordered a replica online. We then created a fake email account and started sending him ransom emails ending with a video of the replica mug getting smashed. good times.
- ante_annum 11y agothis sounds terribly cruel.
- jordigh 11y agoIf you like this stuff, I really, really recommend The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage. It's a great half-comic-book half-historical scholarship. The second half is contained in footnotes and primary sources, which are about half the book, and it's delightfully fun.
- cafard 11y agoDover Books printed an edition containing bits of Passages from the Live of a Philosopher and with Lovelace's translation and amplification of Menabrea's paper on the Analytic Engine: http://store.doverpublications.com/0486246914.html http://store.doverpublications.com/0486246914.html . I don't know what happened to my copy. You can get his On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures at Gutenberg, http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4238 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4238