The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace, Babbage and the Analytical Engine
summary
Demonstrates 3D animations and a worked‑out elevation of Babbage’s Analytical Engine, claiming 50 decimal places of storage, three punch-card types (number, variable/address, operation), conditional looping via a condition arm, and barrels that run wedges of instructions; cites Babbage’s £17,000 public funding for the Difference Engine and the replica Difference Engine (2000) in the Science Museum; references Plan 28 to build the full Engine and uses film‑grade VFX tools to animate mechanisms.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Start
- 0:04The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
- 1:26Ada Lovelace Day
- 2:10Ada Lovelace
- 2:54Charles Babbage
- 3:50The Difference Engine
- 5:21The Analytical Engine
- 12:23The Google Books Project
- 19:24Difference Engine
- 21:48Operations
- 24:24Number Card
- 26:49The Operation Card
- 36:01When's the Film Coming Out
- 36:44Favorite Piece of Correspondence between Lovelace and Babbag
- 41:07The Anticipating Carriage
- 41:21Rod Logic
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