Quiz: FF Charles Babbage
What motivated Charles Babbage to design his Difference Engines?
In the 1800's people did know how to hand-calculate logarithms but the tables published in books contains errors. So he designed a machine to do these calculations (and avoid human errors)..
Modern scientists estimate that Babbbage's Analytical Engine has the equivalent of ______ bytes of memory.
675
Modern scientists have calculated that Babbages's Analytical Engine runs at a clock rate of about ______ Hz.
7
Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine was programmable via punched cards. The first person to write a program for this machine (and thus the first "programmer") was:
Ada Lovelace
Charles Babage is know for being a:
All of the above
In his lifetime, Charles Babbage did complete a working version of his Difference Engine 1
False
A working version of Difference Engine No. 2 was completed in 1991 based on the blueprints of Charles Babbage. True/False
True
Well into the 1800s many scientists were also known as philosophers
True