A difference engine is an automatic mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions. It was designed in the 1820s, and was first created...

The Difference Engine (1990) is an alternative history novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. It is widely regarded as a book that helped establish...

the successor to Babbage's difference engine, which was a design for a simpler mechanical calculator. The analytical engine incorporated an arithmetic...

successful engineering of many of his designs, including his Difference Engine and Analytical Engine, remained a prominent figure in the ideating of computing...

The Difference Engine is the second album from stoner rock band Beaver. Released on Elegy Records in 1997. "On Parade" "Enter The Treasury" "The Reaper"...

Lovelace's notes even had to explain how the Analytical Engine differed from the original Difference Engine. Her work was well received at the time; the scientist...

Most petrol engines use spark ignition, unlike diesel engines which typically use compression ignition. Another key difference to diesel engines is that petrol...

and simpler model of his difference engine. The second one was a programmable mechanical calculator, his analytical engine, which Babbage started to...

collaborated with Bruce Sterling on the alternate history novel The Difference Engine (1990), which became an important work of the science fiction subgenre...

power source a temperature difference will develop across the machine; in this way it acts as a heat pump. The Stirling engine was invented by Scotsman...