Granada y Máquina analítica de Babbage: qué tienen en común

1. Paso 1. Granada — está hecho de — Arcilla. Medieval grenades were ceramic vessels.
2. Paso 2. Arcilla — es material para — Tipos móviles. Bi Sheng’s type was made of fired clay.
3. Paso 3. Tipos móviles — forma parte de — Imprenta de Gutenberg. Text is set from metal type.
4. Paso 4. Imprenta de Gutenberg — funciona como — Telar Jacquard. 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.
5. Paso 5. Telar Jacquard — inspiró — 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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