Press platen und Analytische Maschine: was sie gemeinsam haben
- Schritt 1. Press platen — ist Teil von — Screw press. It transfers the force to the material.
- Schritt 2. Screw press — ist Teil von — Gutenberg printing press. Gutenberg adapted the screw press known from pressing grapes.
- Schritt 3. 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.
- Schritt 4. 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.