Sentence examples for mechanical computer that from inspiring English sources

I've seen a guy build an ancient Greek mechanical computer that can calculate solar eclipses.

Lovelace realized that the Analytical Engine, a mechanical computer that was proposed by English mathematician Charles Babbage, could be used to perform a sequence of operations.

Lovelace's friend Charles Babbage designed a concept for a machine he called the "Analytical Engine" -- essentially a mechanical computer that would have relied on punch cards to run programs.

Michael Moorcock and K W Jeter got things going in the late 70s; by 1990 William Gibson and Bruce Sterling's wonderful The Difference Engine saw steampunk reach its maturity in a novel about the brilliant Ada Lovelace (Byron's daughter), Charles Babbage and a mechanical computer that achieves sentience, Terminator-style.

This is an important foundation: after all, the basic idea of an electrical relay was known in the 1820s, and the concept of a mechanical computer that operated off a stored set of instructions-a program-was understood a few years later.

It, in turn, helped to inspire Charles Babbage, the pioneer of a mechanical computer that one observer called a "thinking machine".Following in Vaucanson's footsteps, Wolfgang von Kempelen, a Hungarian nobleman, built two machines that imitated uniquely human capabilities: speech and reason.

In the 1920s work began on the design of "predictors," mechanical computers that could be given the course, height, and speed of the aircraft as well as the ballistic constants of the gun and could then calculate the gun data necessary to place the shell in the future position of the aircraft.

Mechanical inventions, computers that self-replicate and molecular machines made of organic material, promise to puree the Linnaean order of animate and inanimate.

Over the next few years, he said, the Port Authority will also replace its mechanical switches with computers that will allow trains to run closer together.

He points out that Charles Babbage, the designer of an early mechanical computer, gave much thought to reducing the errors that human computers made.

The recent result by Peter Shor, that a quantum mechanical computer can factor in polynomial time, has stimulated a lot of interest in the Theory of Computation community.