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③ Enchanting Numbers▪On computers’ invention as mechanical calculators

A History of Science by Dr Michiel Meulendijk

May 22, 201727:44Society & Culture

Computing began long before the twentieth century. Mechanical calculators ran on cogs, wheels, and steam engines. How would you like a job as a computer? Not a programmer, not even a mathematician. A computer. Someone wh...

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③ Enchanting Numbers▪On computers’ invention as mechanical calculators is an episode from A History of Science by Dr Michiel Meulendijk. Computing began long before the twentieth century. Mechanical calculators ran on cogs, wheels, and stea...

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Published May 22, 2017, 27:44 long, audio available.