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Posted By engineer 1 year, 7 months ago in Science & Technology
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The world of computing could have been very different to that of today had a machine that was designed over 150 years ago been built at the time.

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    engineer1 year, 7 months ago

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    For the time in which it was designed, it's completely amazing!

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      CRYMTYPHON1 year, 7 months ago

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      You know who would have been the perfect Victorian programmer?

      Lewis Carrol ( Rev Charles Dodson, writer of Alice in Wonderland, as well as a mathematician ).

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        engineer1 year, 7 months ago

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        Very interesting

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        Charlson1 year, 7 months ago

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        There were vast collections of knowledge in ancient repositories that were deliberately destroyed by conquerors who didn't understand what they were destroying or were afraid that this knowledge was too dangerous. Of course this isn't applicable to the victorian computer, but there are many inventions that we use now, that had been thought of hundreds if not thousands of years ago. Good post!

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