One thing I was very interested in seeing in London was the Babbage calculating engines at the London Museum of Science. Charles Babbage designed this computer in the 19th century, but (despite long effort and personal, as well as government, investment) it never was built. The museum finally built one a few years ago, and I'd read a very interesting book about this. Not only that, they had more great early computers - both of which were on display in London:
- Here I am besides a portion of Babbage's Computer!
- I wrote an article for HolQeD (the journal of the Klingon Language Institute) about Klingon Computers, and I based it on these real computers:
- Napiers Bones - an early computer for doing multiplication
- And Pascal's adding machine, one of the very first automatic computers!!
- I wrote an article for HolQeD (the journal of the Klingon Language Institute) about Klingon Computers, and I based it on these real computers:
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