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Constructing Difference Engines The Science Museum in London built a complete, working version of Babbage's second difference engine that could hold seven number of 31 decimals each, allowing it to tabulate seventh-degree polynomials to high precision.   |
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Accumulation Conveyor With its drive gears formed directly into the rollers, the PosiGrip Accumulation Conveyor has no separate sprocket or gears and no welded drive components. |
PC Magazine
August 30, 2006 |
Lego Nation The PodBrix phenomenon started with a limited line of modified LEGO figures mimicking the famous iPod silhouette ads; now each new release of themed "minifigs" sells out practically overnight. |
Fast Company
September 2001
Charles Fishman |
Why Can't Lego Click? The giant Danish toymaker has a history and a reputation that most companies can only dream of. Yet its efforts to change and grow with the times just won't click... |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
An Irascible Genius and His Difference Engine Doron Swade's The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer tells the story of Babbage's lifelong dedication to the idea of the computer, from the moment in 1821 when he exclaimed that mathematics ought to be powered by steam... |
PC Magazine
April 6, 2005
Cade Metz |
Tech Memories Go for Top Dollar Relics of computer history fetch handsome bids at Christie's auction. |
T.H.E. Journal
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BusinessWeek
September 4, 2006
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Brainier Robots, Brainier Kids? LEGO's robot kit could help spark an early interest in science. |
