Boole

Robert B on February 7th, 2011

Got bored, so I played around with the book cover template in InDesign. What if Charles Babbage and George Boole had brainstormed together? And what if Babbage ditched decimal representation in favor of binary? And then went on to build the much simpler and cheaper Logical Engine? I think this would make a fun alternate [...]

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Robert B on August 24th, 2010

In which it is speculated whether Babbage could have thought of a binary Engine.

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