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

The Analytical Engine would perform more mathematical operations.

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.

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

Charles Babbage wrote a book titled

On the Economy of Machinery and Manufacturers

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

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