This was the first fully-automatic calculating machine. British computing pioneer Charles Babbage (1791-1871) first conceived the idea of an advanced calculating machine to calculate and print mathematical tables in 1812. This machine, conceived by Babbage in 1834, was designed to evaluate any mathematical formula and to have even higher powers of analysis than his original Difference engine of the 1820s. Only part of the machine was completed before his death in 1871. This is a portion of the mill with a printing mechanism. Babbage was also a reformer, mathematician, philosopher, inventor and political economist.
Aus der Geschichte lernen: »Wenn es um unsere Sicherheit geht, brauchen wir keine Erlaubnis von irgendjemandem, auch eine Zustimmung des UN-Sicherheitsrates nicht.« Das hat nicht Putin gesagt, sondern der US-Präsident George W. Bush am 7. März 2003, kurz vor dem Angriffskrieg gegen den Irak.
