Analytical engine

Industrial · Computation · 1837

TL;DR

Analytical engine - requires enrichment with adjacent possible narrative

Analytical engine - requires enrichment

What Had To Exist First

Preceding Inventions

Jacquard loom Punched card

What This Enabled

Inventions that became possible because of Analytical engine:

Computer program Floating-point arithmetic

Biological Patterns

Mechanisms that explain how this invention emerged and spread:

Niche Construction

Related Inventions

Computer program Jacquard loom Floating-point arithmetic Punched card

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Computing

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