Timeline of computing hardware before 1950: Difference between revisions

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|| Following Babbage, although unaware of his earlier work, [[Percy Ludgate]] in 1909 published the 2nd of the only two designs for mechanical analytical engines in history.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.scss.tcd.ie/SCSSTreasuresCatalog/miscellany/TCD-SCSS-X.20121208.002/TCD-SCSS-X.20121208.002.pdf |title=Percy E. Ludgate Prize in Computer Science |work=The John Gabriel Byrne Computer Science Collection |access-date=2020-01-15}}</ref>

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|| In his ''Essays on Automatics'' publishedwritten in 19141913, [[Leonardo Torres y Quevedo]] formulates what will be a new branch of engineering: [[automation]] and designed a Babbage type of calculating machine that used electromechanical parts which included [[floating-point arithmetic|floating-point number]] representations.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.fano.co.uk/ludgate/|title=Percy Ludgate's Analytical Machine|website=fano.co.uk|at=''From Analytical Engine to Electronic Digital Computer: The Contributions of Ludgate, Torres, and Bush'' by Brian Randell, 1982, Ludgate: pp. 4–5, Quevedo: pp. 6, 11–13, Bush: pp. 13, 16–17|access-date=29 October 2018}}</ref>

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