Press platen e Máquina analítica de Babbage: o que têm em comum

1. Passo 1. Press platen — faz parte de — Screw press. It transfers the force to the material.
2. Passo 2. Screw press — faz parte de — Gutenberg printing press. Gutenberg adapted the screw press known from pressing grapes.
3. Passo 3. 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.
4. Passo 4. 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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