Why We Invented the Computer (History of Computers pt. 1)
Channel: Answer Archive
Date: 2020-04-23

You normally wouldn't think of a stick or a hairdresser as a computer, but that's where their storied history begins. From cavemen to Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, delve into the beginnings of the history of computers in this episode of the Answer Archive.

Sources

Computers: The Life Story of a Technology by Eric G. Swedin and David L. Ferro
https://amzn.to/2KucNZg

Computer: A History of the Information Machine by Martin-Campbell Kelly, William Aspray, Nathan Ensmenger, and Jeffrey R. Yost
https://amzn.to/2zlcbCN
Note: I caught a couple minor errors in this book. Not saying it is not trustworthy, but at the point where I catch some mistakes I figured I should warn you.

Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (Charles Babbages' Autobiography)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57532

Sketch of The Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage (Article translated by Ada Lovelace about the Analytical Engine)
https://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html

Charles Babbage's Fight Against Street Music (Article where I read that somebody had children wack pails outside Babbage's window as he was dying)
https://priceonomics.com/charles-babbages-fight-against-street-music/

The Little Engines that Could've: The Calculating Machines of Charles Babbage
http://robroy.dyndns.info/collier/index.html

Calculation and Tabulation in the Nineteenth Century: Airy versus Babbage
http://ed-thelen.org/bab/Swade_PhD.pdf

A Letter to Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. President of the Royal Society, Etc. Etc. On The Application of Machinery To The Purpose Of Calculating and Printing Mathematical Tables, From Charles Babbage, Esq. M.A. (The open letter Babbage wrote describing De Prony's work and Difference Engine)
https://books.google.com/books?id=YBHnAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

Howard Aiken Quotes from Interview
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://amhistory.si.edu/archives/AC0196_aike73027.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjr5NvPwInpAhVCS6wKHXXKAJQQFjAGegQIBBAB&usg=AOvVaw3PpMEl0KtJestUh73gt2Ex&cshid=1588021431697

Attribution:
Difference Engine No. 2 Description on Sign
https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co526657/difference-engine-no-2-designed-by-charles-babbage-built-by-science-museum-difference-engine

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