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Also a truly astonishingly beautiful babbage engine. I came from the UK to CA to see it.
by hkt 5y ago
Also a truly astonishingly beautiful babbage engine. I came from the UK to CA to see it.
- dhosek 5y agoYou do know that there's one in London at the Science Museum (the one that was¹ in California was built at the same time for Nathan Myhrvold). ⸻⸻⸻ 1. It was on loan to the Computer History Museum from Myhrvold and returned to him in 2016. It's unclear whether he did re-loan it or if he's busily calculating the values of polynomials with it.² The Computer History Museum website makes it sound like it's currently on display but I can find no news stories about it going back to the museum. 2. Just kidding about him calculating polynomials—it's (I think) on display in the lobby of Intellectual Ventures.
- dhosek 5y agoI was curious enough to actually contact IV and confirm that the other Difference Engine No 2 is, in fact, in their lobby.