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

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...

the successor to Babbage's difference engine, which was a design for a simpler mechanical calculator. The analytical engine incorporated an arithmetic...

successful engineering of many of his designs, including his Difference Engine and Analytical Engine, remained a prominent figure in the ideating of computing...

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...

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...

fourth-order differences) and has similarities with Charles Babbage's difference engine. (Scheutz machine was based on the difference engine). The device...

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...

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

collaborated with Bruce Sterling on the alternate history novel The Difference Engine (1990), which became an important work of the science fiction subgenre...

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

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...

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...

known for his work on the computer pioneer Charles Babbage and his Difference Engine. Swade was originally from South Africa. He has studied electronics...

Nasuhzade Ali Pasha. July 3 – Charles Babbage publishes a proposal for a difference engine, a forerunner of the modern computer, for calculating logarithms and...

Museum library in London, of the original drawings for the Difference Engine and Analytical Engine designed by Charles Babbage more than a century earlier...

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...

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...

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

computer, which Babbage called a difference engine (a later, more general-purpose version was known as an Analytical Engine), was actually built, and led...

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...

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

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

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...

Hessian army who conceived the difference engine in 1786 (first written reference to the basic principles of a difference machine is dated to 1784), an...

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...

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

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...

London successfully built the computing section of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine #2 in 1991, Myhrvold funded the construction of the output section...

game was inspired by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling's novel, The Difference Engine, and its basic plot and stylistics are both based on the novel. The...