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>>> Hehe yes, I'd never have thought you could make a spectrum analyser
>>> mechanically!
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>> IIRC there is prior art in this direction - I saw a machine in the
>> London Science Museum that does this. Victorian, I think. I forget
>> exactly how it works; suffice it to say it seems "obvious" after
>> you've been told. ;-)
>
> You mean Charles Babagge's Analytical Machine?
Actually no - this device was hard-wired for the Fourier transform.
> I'm sure you know the importance of Babagge's work that led to today's
> computers. And Ada Lovelace...
Well, yeah, even a moron like me knows of Babagge's work...
The computer, more than any other invention in history, appears to be a
device that no single person can really be said to have "invented". It
really was the result of many, many great minds.
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