Charles Babbage: Part 2

Question 1

How did Babbage come up with the Analytic engine

Answer 1

As an academic exercise, never tried to build it

Question 2

Significance of the Analytic engine

Answer 2

Was the first programmable device;
Speed and technology was advanced for its time;
Included the concept of a stored program

Question 3

How did the analytic engine store information

Answer 3

Information stored on a series of punched cards

Question 4

How was the Analytic engine created

Answer 4

The mill of the engine was created under direction of Babbage’s son

Question 5

Store component of the analytic engine

Answer 5

Information was stored in the register in the form of gears;
Each gear represented a single digit and could rotate to 10 different positions

Question 6

Mill of the Analytic engine

Answer 6

The arithmetic unit;
Arrangement of gears and linkages between the gears was employed

Question 7

Control barrel of the Analytic engine

Answer 7

Primitive form of the Micro control unit;
Had studs sticking out and would operate differently based on which studs were sticking out

Question 8

Counter mechanism of the Analytic engine

Answer 8

Counts how many times an operation has executed

Question 9

Ada Augusta Countess of Lovelace

Answer 9

Considered to be the first computer programmer;
Protege of Babbage;
Understood his works at a deep enough level to add on to them

Question 10

Percy Ludgate(1883 -1922)

Answer 10

Accountant that designed his own version of the analytic engine;
Mechanical like Babbage’s, but powered by an electric motor;