On July 8, 1835, an English nobleman, the 8th Baron King, was married in what was, by all accounts, a pleasant wedding, though it was a much smaller affair than one might have expected, given the ...

When, as a teenager, Lovelace attended a demonstration by Charles Babbage ... make a machine that could perform multiple tasks by changing the way each part interacted with another. As in his first ...

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