POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Babbage : Re: Babbage Server Time
29 Jul 2024 16:20:27 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Babbage  
From: nemesis
Date: 2 Jul 2011 16:25:00
Message: <web.4e0f7d8c262588d9a1bcfb90@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Fact: Charles Babbage designed arguably the world's first ever
> Turing-complete machine. (75 years before Alan Turing was even born, I
> notice.)
>
> Question: When did electricity become common knowledge?

Btw, I'm sure you realize the two of them are unrelated to each other, right?
Babbage's machines were completely mechanical devices...


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