Canid117 said:
TheAmazingHobo said:
Canid117 said:
Oops I mixed the difference engine with the Analytical engine my bad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_engine
Hey look it is even programmable. It was never fully constructed though. Only partial or very simple builds based on early designs but he still invented it and it is still a computer.
Ah, yes. Coming up with a brilliant idea and/or theory and utterly, utterly failing to actually realize it.
Britains greatest skill.
But I still maintain that Germany invented the computer. Because we´re talking about technology here, not philosophy. Ideas are neat, actually doing stuff is neater... more neat.... better.
I think you should get a dictionary and look up philosophy because creating a design is not the same as philosophy. It was realized at least partially but it didn't have the funding to be fully constructed. Finished? No. Invented? Yes.
Then you can give that one to the Greeks. They invented what appears to be a semi programmable engine that was used in navigation that computed astronomical positions.
This whole arguing about inventions is pointless.
The Greeks invented what was basically a steam engine as well, does that make the steam engines invented later any less significant?
The US has a gigantic hand in the rise of the automobile, but have a significantly diminished world presence today. Does that mean Toyota the current largest manufacturer of vehicles in the world any less innovative because the internal combustion engine was already invented? Is the US's hand in the development of the modern automobile any less because a French man attached a steam engine to a cart a hundred years before?
No, and arguing about who invented what and when, and picking older and older versions of it that did roughly the same thing out is the wost of this bickering.
Everything ever invented, every thought, every idea is built upon all the previous inventions, thoughts, and ideas.
