Glory and failure: the difference engines of Johann Müller, Charles Babbage and Georg and Edvard Scheutz
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Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]
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1990
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| adam_text | Contents
Abbreviations
8
Acknowledgements
9
Preface to the Second Edition
11
Series Foreword
12
Introduction
13
PART I
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HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY
1.
Babbage,
Müller,
and the first difference engines
1.1
Numerical tables, a historical background
17
1.2
The Utopian invention
34
1.3
The method of differences
70
1.4
The Difference Engine No.
1 76
2.
Scheutz and the Swedish difference engines
2.1
Georg
Scheutz, auditor, journalist and inventor
82
2.2
The transfer of technology
98
2.3
Edvard
Scheutz and the first engine
112
2.4
The second engine
159
2.5
The third engine
211
PART II
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ANALYSIS
3.
The machines, the men, and the market
3.1
A comparison between Scheutz1 and Babbage s engines
239
3.2
Babbage s failure analyzed
255
3.3
Why was the Scheutz engine not a commercial success?
271
Epilogue
288
Notes
291
Appendix
1
Rediscovery and restoration
372
2
Distribution list
379
3
Berzelius Statement
389
Bibliography
392
Index of persons
410
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