Clay core y Máquina analítica de Babbage: qué tienen en común

1. Paso 1. Clay core — forma parte de — Dique. A clay layer that keeps water out.
2. Paso 2. Dique — está hecho de — Arcilla. Levees were built up of earth and clay.
3. Paso 3. Arcilla — es material para — Tipos móviles. Bi Sheng’s type was made of fired clay.
4. Paso 4. Tipos móviles — forma parte de — Imprenta de Gutenberg. Text is set from metal type.
5. Paso 5. 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.
6. Paso 6. 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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