2. GEORG SCHEUTZ
Birth Date: 23.09.1785
Co build the 1st commercial calculator
based on Babbages Difference Engine.
3. Georg Scheutz
The Swede Pehr Georg Scheutz was a
remarkable man a lawyer, translator,
and inventor.
he read a description of the
differential engine of Babbage.
he decided to build such a machine
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LOGARITHMS
OTHER AREA CALCULATION
TABLES
MECHANICAL CALCULATION
MACHINE
6. Charles Babbage
I was sitting in the rooms of the Analytical Society, at Cambridge,
my head leaning forward on the table in a kind of dreamy mood,
with a table of logarithms lying open before me. Another member,
coming into the room, and seeing me half asleep, called out, Well,
Babbage, what are you dreaming about? to which I replied I am
thinking that all these tables (pointing to the logarithms) might be
calculated by machinery.
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use of sliding rods, instead of the more
natural use of wheels in the adding
mechanism
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The machine produced correct results at
the rate of 33 digits per minute, so the
values were tabulated in two and a half
minutes.
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The Astronomical Society received Babbages proposal
with the highest enthusiasm.
A Difference Engine, a specialized calculating machine
for calculation of tables, using the method of
differences.
11. Georg Scheutz
The machine could handle numbers of
15 digits and tabulate functions with 4
orders of differences (the fourth being
constant) and print out results, rounded
off to eight digit.