The Difference Engine (1990) is an alternative history novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling.[better source needed] It has been described as an early...

A difference engine is an automatic mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions. It was designed in the 1820s, and was created by...

described in 1837 as the successor to Babbage's difference engine, which was a design for a simpler mechanical calculator. The analytical engine incorporated...

first mechanical computer, the difference engine, that eventually led to more complex electronic designs, though all the essential ideas of modern computers...

The Difference Engine is the second album by stoner rock band Beaver, released on Elegy Records in 1997. All songs written by Beaver. "On Parade" "Enter...

separator and a pulse jet engine. None of these were commercially successful. Difference engine Per Georg Scheutz "Original Documents on the History of Calculators"...

recognized the difference between the details of the computing mechanism, as covered in an 1834 article on the Difference Engine, and the logical structure...

lifetime, and the dimensions of which required a steam engine to power them. The first was an automatic mechanical calculator, his difference engine, which could...

specialising in the history of computing. He is especially known for his work on the computer pioneer Charles Babbage and his Difference Engine. Swade was...

A Stirling engine is a heat engine that is operated by the cyclic expansion and contraction of air or other gas (the working fluid) by exposing it to...

the alternate history novel The Difference Engine (1990), which became an important work of the science fiction subgenre known as steampunk. In the 1990s...

engines found only in the Honda S2000. Similar to B series, the K-series car engines have two short blocks with the same design; the only difference between...

petrol engines use spark ignition, unlike diesel engines which run on diesel fuel and typically use compression ignition. Another key difference to diesel...

Babbage's difference engine. In 1851 they obtained funds from government to build an improved model, which was created in 1853 (was roughly the size of...

history of Babbage's efforts at constructing a mechanical Difference Engine and Analytical Engine. The paper contains a design of a machine capable to calculate...

steampunk video games. The Chaos Engine (1993) is a run and gun video game inspired by the Gibson/Sterling novel The Difference Engine (1990), set in a Victorian...

engineer and industrialist, chiefly remembered as the maker of Charles Babbage's first difference engine, between 1824 and 1833. Joseph Clement was born...

of the Stirling engine range from mechanical propulsion to heating and cooling to electrical generation systems. A Stirling engine is a heat engine operating...

manufacture the difference engine. This included investigating the ownership of intellectual property, tooling and piece-parts of the difference engine. Bryan...

Charles Babbage's difference engine, an early mechanical calculator, was designed to use this algorithm in its operation. Divided differences is a recursive...

Method of difference may refer to: The method of finite differences, used in the difference engine One of Mill's methods in inductive reasoning A mathematical...

engineer in the Hessian army who conceived the difference engine in 1786 (first written reference to the basic principles of a difference machine is dated...

Sterling's novel, The Difference Engine, and its basic plot and stylistics are both based on the novel. The game's coder developed the partner AI by observing...

and safety lead. The character "Michael Godwin" in the 1990 book The Difference Engine by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson was named after Godwin as thanks...

The VR6 engine is a six-cylinder engine configuration developed by Volkswagen. The name VR6 comes from the combination of German words "Verkürzt" and "Reihenmotor"...

using them. The apex of this early era of mechanical computing can be seen in the Difference Engine and its successor the Analytical Engine both by Charles...

additional keyboard programming, production on "Blush Response (Difference Engine remix)" Damian "The Frog" Rainaud – additional keyboard programming, assistant...

manual labor. His difference engine, designed to aid navigational calculations, ultimately led him to conceive the analytical engine in 1833. This concept...

A flat-four engine, also known as a horizontally opposed-four engine or boxer engine, is a four-cylinder piston engine with two banks of cylinders lying...

co-authoring the 1990 alternate history novel The Difference Engine, which was nominated for the Nebula, Campbell, Aurora and BSFA awards and featured in the Locus...