She showed it to Babbage, and she said, " Couldn't I do better than this? " , basically.

她把它拿给巴贝奇看 然后说：“我难道不能写得比这更好吗？”

But, in 1991, historians finished constructing a Difference Engine based on Babbage's drawings and writings - and it worked!

然而，在1991年 历史根据Charles Babbage草稿建成了一个差分机 而且它能正常使用！

But more importantly, during construction of the Difference Engine, Babbage imagined an even more complex machine - the Analytical Engine.

但更重要是，在差分机建造期 Charles Babbage了一个更复杂机器 - 分析机。

Babbage imagined an even more complex machine - the Analytical Engine.

Charles Babbage 构了一个更复杂机器 - 分析机。

The idea of some kind of visual persistence goes back long before Babbage's dinner party, even to ancient Greece and Egypt.

视觉持久性法可以追溯到巴贝奇晚宴之前，甚至可以追溯到古希腊和埃及。

The Analytical Engine would inspire, arguably, the first generation of computer scientists, who incorporated many of Babbage's ideas in their machines.

分析机将会激励（可以这么讲）第一代计算机科，这些计算机科将许多Charles Babbage法纳入他机器。

Those two dolls had no real purpose except for pure fun, a laugh, a shot of dopamine, but they changed Babbage's life.

那两个玩偶除了纯粹乐趣、笑声、多巴胺之外没有真正目，但他改变了巴贝奇生活。

Well, after dinner, Herschel asked Babbage a question, " How can you see two sides of a coin at the same time? "

晚饭后，赫歇尔问了巴贝奇一个问题，“你如何能同时看到硬币两面？”

Paper printers were so useful that even Babbage designed one for his Difference Engine, and that was in the 1820s!

纸质打印机非常有用，甚至 Babbage 也为他差分机设计了一台，那是在 1820 年代！

Babbage started construction in 1823, and over the next two decades, tried to fabricate and assemble the 25,000 components, collectively weighing around 15 tons.

Charles Babbage于1823年开始建造差分机并在接下来二十年里，试图制造和组装25000个零件 这些零件总重接近15吨。

We've stood on the shoulders of giants like Babbage and Lovelace, Hollerith and Turing, Eckert and Hopper, Sutherland and Engelbart, Bush and Berners Lee, Gates and the Woz, and many other computing pioneers.

我站在巨人肩膀上，如巴贝奇和洛夫莱斯、霍勒瑞斯和图灵、埃克特和霍珀、萨瑟兰和恩格尔巴特、布什和伯纳斯李、盖茨和沃兹，以及许多其他计算先驱。

They happened to capture the imagination of one young boy who visited the shop named Charles Babbage.

他碰巧激发了一个名叫查尔斯·巴贝奇小男孩力。

Mathematician Charles Babbage was there with astronomer William Herschel.

数查尔斯·巴贝奇和天文威廉·赫歇尔出席了。

This is why Babbage is often considered the " father of computing" .

这就是为什么Charles Babbage经常被认为是" 计算之父" 。

You might know Babbage as the father of computing and Herschel as the guy who found Uranus.

你可能知道巴贝奇是计算机之父，而赫歇尔是天王星发现者。

Lovelace was a mathematician who was an associate of Charles Babbage, the man who first designed the digital computer.

洛芙莱斯是一位数，他是查尔斯·巴贝奇同事，巴贝奇是最早设计数字计算机人。

Charles Babbage proposed a new mechanical device called the Difference Engine, a much more complex machine that could approximate polynomials.

Charles Babbage提出了一种称为差分机新型机械装置这是一个可以近似多项式更加复杂机器。