The first computer | All About History
2014年4月9日 · The Difference Engine was the first automatic, mechanical calculator designed by British mathematician Charles Babbage, who proposed its construction in 1822 to the Royal Astronomical Society. He suggested the machine would employ the decimal number system and would be powered by turning a handle, as a method to calculate mathematical tables ...
Ada Lovelace: The first computer programmer? | All About History
2015年10月13日 · Charles Babbage was a technological innovator and had created the Analytical Engine – the device generally considered to be the first computer. Babbage was 42, and yet despite the gap of more than 20 years between them, a friendship would grow that would not only provide them with comfort and intellectual stimulation, but provide the world ...
Who Was Ada Lovelace? | All About History
2019年4月5日 · However, to call Ada ‘the first computer programmer’ is a contentious point. The Analytical Engine was not built during her lifetime, so her conceptualised programme was never properly tested. She collaborated with Babbage on her Notes and sent him copies for advice and revisions, so it is believed that Babbage influenced her ideas.
The Secrecy of the Colossus | All About History
2014年2月7日 · The Colossus, as we reported yesterday, was the world's first electronic, digital computer, used in the Second World War for deciphering codes between Hitler and his generals and is currently celebrating its 70th anniversary. In 1943, John Cane was 19 years old and working as a post office engineer, before being headhunted for his skills
The Anniversary of the World’s First Electronic Computer
2014年2月6日 · Colossus was the first electronic computer, but news of its existence was kept secret for thirty years because of the sophistication and sensitivity surrounding the encryption it had helped to break. The computer, which was 7ft high by 17ft wide and 11ft deep, weighed a tonne and used 8kW of power.
Where did the Nazi salute come from? | All About History
2015年2月27日 · However, it wasn’t the Nazis who adopted this salute first, but the Italian Fascist party, who in turn adopted it from earlier Italian nationalist and proto-fascist Gabriele d’Annunzio. World War I hero, poet, playwrite and rabble rouser, d’Annunzio marched 2,600 volunteers into the city of Fiume (now Rijeka in Croatia) to claim it for Italy.
"By jove, we actually did it" – What It Was Like Landing A Man On …
2019年7月17日 · John R ‘Jack’ Garman is a computer engineer who worked at NASA from 1966 to 2000. In 1969 he was a key figure in the Apollo 11 lunar landing, responsible for overseeing the primitive computer onboard the spacecraft. Now retired, Garman had a long and fruitful career at NASA, although perhaps no mission was as important as Apollo 11.
Inside the F-4 Phantom II | All About History
2013年7月21日 · One of the most iconic fighter planes ever, the F-4 Phantom II set 15 world records during its lifetime
“You always felt like you stood out” – former NASA engineer …
2023年3月29日 · Apollo 8 was the first time that we had ever lost communication with a spacecraft in flight for long. Did it hit you in that moment that you were making history? It didn’t hit me at that moment because you’re so involved in what you’re doing and making sure that everything is working, you can’t be thinking about those extraneous things.
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2024年11月28日 · It wasn’t just the trials of the First World War that brought down the Tsars in Russia, but years of military failure and mismanagement, as we find out from Mark Galeotti this issue. What if Japan had triumphed at the Battle of Midway? Could it have swung the Pacific War and changed how WWII came to an end? We explore the possibilities.