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    A difference engine is an automatic mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions. It was designed in the 1820s, and was first created...
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  • 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...
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    the successor to Babbage's difference engine, which was a design for a simpler mechanical calculator. The analytical engine incorporated an arithmetic...
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    successful engineering of many of his designs, including his Difference Engine and Analytical Engine, remained a prominent figure in the ideating of computing...
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  • 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"...
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    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...
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    and simpler model of his difference engine. The second one was a programmable mechanical calculator, his analytical engine, which Babbage started to...
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    Most petrol engines use spark ignition, unlike diesel engines which typically use compression ignition. Another key difference to diesel engines is that petrol...
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    collaborated with Bruce Sterling on the alternate history novel The Difference Engine (1990), which became an important work of the science fiction subgenre...
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    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...
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