Ship masts und Analytische Maschine: was sie gemeinsam haben

1. Schritt 1. Ship masts — ist Teil von — Klipper. Three masts.
2. Schritt 2. Klipper — ist eine Art von — Sailing ship. A sailing ship.
3. Schritt 3. Sailing ship — nutzt — Mercator projection. Navigating along straight rhumb lines.
4. Schritt 4. Mercator projection — nutzt — Gutenberg printing press. Maps were printed in large numbers.
5. Schritt 5. Gutenberg printing press — funktioniert wie — 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. Schritt 6. Jacquard loom — inspirierte — Analytische Maschine. 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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