KnowFuture - 2008-05-09
Needs a "clacker cove" tag.
...or, at the very least, a "Steampunk" tag....
...just sayin'....
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Comeuppance - 2008-05-09 When I think steampunk, I don't think handcranks and printed tables. No amount of polished brass and cogs can make printed tables steampunk.
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Comeuppance - 2008-05-09 Toasters make delicious food easier, ergo they are acceptable in any culture of genre.
I cannot spread peanut butter on a printed table and rediscover joy.
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fluffy - 2008-05-22 I refuse to call this "steampunk" on the grounds that it's an actual Victorian invention, not a modern invention that some douchenozzle hotglued some copper-plated gears to.
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MerryMisanthrope - 2009-03-25 Actually, I'm pretty sure the book mentioned above was the origin of the "steampunk" sub-sub-genre, and the brass douchenozzles are the later imitators ...
Not that that demeans the general spirit of your comment, though.
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ChocFullOfFunk - 2008-05-09
This thing has always made me feel vastly, vastly inferior. Like, I can write a C program that prints the integers between 1 and 100. This thing mechanically solves polynomials. What the hell Babbage.
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Cap'n Profan!ty - 2008-05-09
I assume this is the Science Museum's machine, finished in 1991. A number of engines were actually built in the 1850s and 1860s and used for marvelous things like computing logarithms.
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Cap'n Profan!ty - 2008-05-09 sorry, I mean "based on the Science Museum's machine."
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ChocFullOfFunk - 2008-05-09 I mean, I think the idea is that you can approximate a logarithm or whatever with a Taylor expansion of finite order, so this can certainly do that.
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RomancingTrain - 2008-05-09
This man made a difference.
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zatojones - 2008-05-09
how is babbage formed?
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baleen - 2008-05-09
Babbage's Similarity Shoes
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