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Charles Babbage completed plans for an elaborate, all-mechanical calculator in 1849. His Difference Engine #2 was so complicated, with more than 8,000 separate parts, that it was never built during his lifetime. But now, thanks to the efforts of dedicated, historically-minded engineers at the Science Museum in London, with the support of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, plus a generous donation of cash from Microsoft gazillionaire genius Nathan Myhrvold, Babbage's Difference Engine is on display in Silicon Valley. http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/05/exclusive-video.html _______________________________________________ Dr Alice Gorman Department of Archaeology Flinders University GPO Box 2100 Adelaide 5001 Mobile: 0428 450 418 http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/archaeology/staff/gorman.php _______________________________________________ -------------------------- contemp-hist-arch is a list for news and events in contemporary and historical archaeology, and for announcements relating to the CHAT conference group. ------- For email subscription options see: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/archives/contemp-hist-arch.html ------- For CHAT meetings see: http://www.bris.ac.uk/archanth/events/chat.html --------------------------