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    A difference engine is an automatic mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions. It was designed in the 1820s, and was created by...
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  • The Difference Engine (1990) is an alternative history novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. It is widely regarded as a book that helped establish...
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    the successor to Babbage's difference engine, which was a design for a simpler mechanical calculator. The analytical engine incorporated an arithmetic...
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    successful engineering of many of his designs, including his Difference Engine and Analytical Engine, remained a prominent figure in the ideating of computing...
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  • 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...
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    fourth-order differences) and has similarities with Charles Babbage's difference engine. (Scheutz machine was based on the difference engine). The device...
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    Similar to B series, the K-series car engines have two short blocks with the same design; the only difference between them being the deck height. K20...
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    petrol engines use spark ignition, unlike diesel engines which run on diesel fuel and typically use compression ignition. Another key difference to diesel...
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    power source a temperature difference will develop across the machine; in this way it acts as a heat pump. The Stirling engine was invented by Scotsman...
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    dimensions of which required a steam engine to power them. The first was an automatic mechanical calculator, his difference engine, which could automatically compute...
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    collaborated with Bruce Sterling on the alternate history novel The Difference Engine (1990), which became an important work of the science fiction subgenre...
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  • Charles Babbage's difference engine, an early mechanical calculator, was designed to use this algorithm in its operation. Divided differences is a recursive...
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    Lovelace's notes even had to explain how the Analytical Engine differed from the original Difference Engine. Her work was well received at the time; the scientist...
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    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...
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    constructed with his son Edvard Scheutz, was based on Charles Babbage's difference engine. In 1851 they obtained funds from government to build an improved...
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  • industrialist, chiefly remembered as the maker of Charles Babbage's first difference engine, between 1824 and 1833. Joseph Clement was born on 13 June 1779 at...
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    Stirling engine range from mechanical propulsion to heating and cooling to electrical generation systems. A Stirling engine is a heat engine operating...
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    torque pulse is the difference. The difference in TDC vs BDC inertial forces is explained in the Engine balance section. Boxer-four engines have been used...
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  • – additional keyboard programming, production on "Blush Response (Difference Engine remix)" Damian "The Frog" Rainaud – additional keyboard programming...
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    single row chain. Only the .962 engine installed on the W210 E300 TURBODIESEL had a MAF sensor. The main differences between the naturally aspirated and...
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    computers, and a restored IBM Ramac 350 disk drive. An operating difference engine designed by Charles Babbage in the 1840s and constructed by the Science...
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    manufacture the difference engine. This included investigating the ownership of intellectual property, tooling and piece-parts of the difference engine. Bryan...
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    copies of the Mona Lisa and other famous pieces of art. For example, Difference Engine No. 2, designed by Charles Babbage in the 19th century, was reconstructed...
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  • 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...
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    computer, which Babbage called a difference engine (a later, more general-purpose version was known as an Analytical Engine), was actually built, and led...
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    London successfully built the computing section of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine #2 in 1991, Myhrvold funded the construction of the output section...
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  • 2002, and received a 1.3 version update in 2018. The 1990 novel The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, is often credited with popularizing...
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    Lycos search engine. Search engines on the web are sites enriched with facility to search the content stored on other sites. There is difference in the way...
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    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...
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    cylinders producing different amounts of power at a particular engine RPM. The difference in port lengths are compensated for with the length of the runners...
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