Could the age of computers have begun in Victorian England?

[Karl W4KRL]

Babbage’s difference engine is interesting only in retrospect. The fly ball governor was a far more important British invention. It introduced the concept of negative feedback that revolutionized the thinking that went into Malthusian economics, Darwinian evolution and Maxwellian control theory.

 

http://www.seit.adfa.edu.au/staff/sites/hrp/historicalpapers/ongovernors.pdf

 

Karl W4KRL

 

From: Andre Kesteloot [mailto:andre.kesteloot at verizon.net] 
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 1:42 PM
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Subject: Could the age of computers have begun in Victorian England?

 

Could the age of computers have begun in Victorian England? <http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/10/31/could-age-computers-have-begun-in-victorian-england/> .




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