Questions on Campbell-Kelly and Aspray ch 1,3

1) 10-11 What was the class background of Babbage? How did his work as a student foreshadow his later work?

2) 9-10 What is meant by “table-making,” and how did this influence Babbage?

3) 11-13 What was the connection between computing and Adam Smith’s economics for Babbage?

4) 14-15 What were the challenges for Babbage in attempting the Difference Engine?

5) 53-54 What was the relation between the Difference Engine and the Analytic Engine?

6) 53-54 How did Ada Lovelace come into the scene?

7) 54-55 What were some of the predecessors for the functional concepts of the Analytic engine?

8) 56-57 What was Lovelace’s role and historic honors?

9) 58-59 How does the Babbage story end?