How did the Bankers Clearing House improve the efficiency of the British banking system in the 1800's?

providing a central location for bank clerks to exchange checks

How did Charles Babbage anticipate the Analytical Engine being different from the Difference Engine?

The Analytical Engine would perform more mathematical operations.

Charles Babbage wrote a book titled

On the Economy of Machinery and Manufacturers

How did Gaspard de Prony innovate the task of making books of logarithms?

He broke it down into simple steps.

Why did Charles Babbage lose continued funding for his inventions?

Asked for money for Analytical Engine before completion of Difference Eng.

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Social Science Section 1, Part I

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1
Which of the following industries spurred the development of the telegram?
agriculture
banking
mining
railroad
printing
2
As he worked on his machine, Charles Babbage requested more funds for the production of
gears
buttons
bars
screws
pins
3
Who sent the first long-distance telegraph message?
Michael Faraday
Thomas Edison
Guglielmo Marconi
Alexander Graham Bell
Samuel Morse
4
Charles Babbage's work relied on funding from
commercial seafaring firms
a Swiss Bank
a wealthy aristocrat
the British government
the Royal Society
5
How did the Bankers Clearing House improve the efficiency of the British banking system in the 1800's?
offering easier credit to aid banks in times of financial crisis
providing a central location for bank clerks to exchange checks
standardizing reserve rates across British banks
helping to insure deposits across British banks
standardizing interest rates for loans between banks
6
Which of the following govenrments sponsored Gaspard de Prony's logarithm project?
Italy
United States
Spain
France
Great Britain
7
Great Britain remained primarily argarian until the
late seventeenth century
late sixteenth century
late eighteenth century
early nineteenth century
early seventeenth century
8
Gaspard de Prony named his innovation in making logarithmic books the "method of
differences"
rationals"
sums"
squares"
divisors"
9
Which of the following items is used in The Wealth of Nations to exemplify the efficiency of specialization in labor?
pins
gears
textiles
bread
furniture
10
Charles Babbage produced his machine prototype in
1803
1823
1833
1813
1843
11
Who wrote The Wealth of Nations?
Joseph Schumpeter
David Ricardo
Alfred Marshall
Adam Smith
Thomas Malthus
12
The first telegram message contained the phrase
"what hath God wrought"
"where is the new horizon"
"Judgement Day is upon us"
"how far is far enough"
"thy kingdom come"
13
Charles Babbage received MOST of the funds for his machine from
the government
a company
family members
friends
a noble
14
Which of the following events created the need for specialization and automation?
American Civil War
Napoleonic Wars
the Enlightenment
American Revolution
Industrial Revolution
15
Who PRIMARILY used navigation tables?
merchants
land surveyors
army generals
everyday travelers
sea captains
16
How did Charles Babbage anticipate the Analytical Engine being different from the Difference Engine?
The Analytical Engine would perform more mathematical operations.
The Analytic Engine would be constructed of more durable materials.
The Analytic Engine would be used on land.
The Analytical Engine would run solely on steam power.
The Analytical Engine would be more compact.
17
Whose daughter was Ada Lovelace?
Percy Shelley's
George Byron's
John Keats's
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's
Alfred Tennyson's
18
Ada Lovelace devised an algorithm that could be used to find
perfect squares
the Fibonacci sequence
Bernoulli numbers
the golden ratio
the least common factor
19
Which of the following mathematicians had the greatest influence on Charles Babbage?
Gaspard de Prony
Georg Bernhard Riemann
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Girolamo Cardano
John Horton Conway
20
Ada Lovelace translated a report on the Analytical Engine that was originally written in
Dutch
English
Spanish
French
German
21
Charles Babbage designed the Difference Engine to perform the operation of
addition
square root
multiplication
division
subtraction
22
Early telegram messages invariably cost more or less depending on the
signal quality
city of origin
number of pages
speed of delivery
number of words
23
Charles Babbage wrote a book titled
On the Clearinghouse and its Antecedents
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufacturers
On the Modern British Banking System
On the London Commercial Sphere
On the History of Agricultural Financing
24
Which of the following nations had the largest navy during the nineteenth century?
Spain
Great Britain
United States
Italy
France
25
Navigation tables show the position of
mountains
ocean currents
coastlines
stars
rivers
26
How did Gaspard de Prony innovate the task of making books of logarithms?
He broke it down into simple steps.
He created tables of frequently used numbers.
He devised a method to work backward from known values.
He created a machine to complete the math.
He trained highly skilled workers.
27
Early telegraphy machines were MOST often located in
post offices
banks
police stations
churches
schools
28
Charles Babbage did NOT claim that his machine would
remove human transcription errors
produce calculations more quickly
solve more advanced problems
avoid accidents at sea
create more accurate calculations
29
Ada Lovelace is sometimes referred to as the first
applied mathematician
computational savant
analytical engineer
computer programmer
hardware developer
30
Why did Charles Babbage lose continued funding for his inventions?
Spent money he received to create Difference Eng on commercial speculation.
Asked for money for Analytical Engine before completion of Difference Eng.
He faced criminal charges and became a social pariah.
Refusal to share the technology behind his inventions w/ financial backers.
He personally insulted a wealthy and socially influential patron.

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