Quebra-mar e Máquina analítica de Babbage: o que têm em comum

1. Passo 1. Quebra-mar — faz parte de — Seaport. A breakwater.
2. Passo 2. Seaport — utiliza — Sailing ship. A port receives ships.
3. Passo 3. Sailing ship — utiliza — Mercator projection. Navigating along straight rhumb lines.
4. Passo 4. Mercator projection — utiliza — Gutenberg printing press. Maps were printed in large numbers.
5. Passo 5. Gutenberg printing press — funciona como — Jacquard loom. An analogy, not proven influence: both set type and a chain of punched cards are a replaceable pattern that a machine reproduces over and over.
6. Passo 6. Jacquard loom — inspirou — Máquina analítica de Babbage. Babbage borrowed Jacquard’s punched cards directly for entering operations and data; Ada Lovelace compared the machine to the Jacquard loom.

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