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Sine
@sinusoidalsnail
The top plane of the first "Automatic Totalisator," designed by George Julius (1913). It was a mechanical computer designed for calculating and displaying bets at horse races. There are more really awesome pictures of it, at this link: https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/historydisplays/SecondFloor/Totalisators/FirstJulius/FirstJuliusMain.php#tickets
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Paul Prudence
@paul-prudence
'designed for calculating and displaying bets at horse races', that is some specialised babbagepunk 150 $degen
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Phil Cockfield
@pjc
The great great (..n) great grandson on Charles Babbage lives on this little island I’m on. I bump into him on the beach or at the grocery shop every now and then . @sinusoidalsnail, what space/time folding tempest have you set off?! “BabbagePunk” yes yes! 🙌 Nice one Paul, what a slick neologism. Totally gonna be sliding that into conversation next time I see him 😅
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Sine
@sinusoidalsnail
hahah wild stuff
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Paul Prudence
@paul-prudence
That's an interesting little lineage to a fragment of history walking around on your Island. Do you get a chance to chat about the older Babbage's work? Yes Babbagepunk, like steampunk but with more gears, rods, chains and pulley's
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