This is why Babbage is often considered the " father of computing" .

这就为什么Charles Babbage经常被认为" 算之父" 。

She showed it to Babbage, and she said, " Couldn't I do better than this? " , basically.

她把它拿给巴贝看 然后说：“我难道不能写得比这更好吗？”

You might know Babbage as the father of computing and Herschel as the guy who found Uranus.

你可能知道巴贝算之父，而赫歇尔天王星发现者。

But, in 1991, historians finished constructing a Difference Engine based on Babbage's drawings and writings - and it worked!

然而，在1991年 历史学家根据Charles Babbage草稿成了一个差分 而且它能正常使用！

The Analytical Engine would inspire, arguably, the first generation of computer scientists, who incorporated many of Babbage's ideas in their machines.

分析将会激励（可以这么讲）第一代算科学家，这些算科学家们将许多Charles Babbage想法纳入他们器。

But more importantly, during construction of the Difference Engine, Babbage imagined an even more complex machine - the Analytical Engine.

但更重要，在差分造期间 Charles Babbage想象了一个更复杂器 - 分析。

The idea of some kind of visual persistence goes back long before Babbage's dinner party, even to ancient Greece and Egypt.

视觉持久性想法可以追溯到巴贝晚宴之前，甚至可以追溯到古希腊和埃及。

Those two dolls had no real purpose except for pure fun, a laugh, a shot of dopamine, but they changed Babbage's life.

那两个玩偶除了纯粹乐趣、笑声、多巴胺之外没有真正目，但他们改变了巴贝生活。

Paper printers were so useful that even Babbage designed one for his Difference Engine, and that was in the 1820s!

纸质打印非常有用，甚至 Babbage 也为他差分设了一台，那在 1820 年代！

Well, after dinner, Herschel asked Babbage a question, " How can you see two sides of a coin at the same time? "

晚饭后，赫歇尔问了巴贝一个问题，“你如何能同时看到硬币两面？”

Well, Babbage's answer, " Just look at its reflection in the mirror, " pretty creative solution, but Herschel had an even better answer.

巴贝回答，“看看镜子里自己”，很有创意回答，但赫歇尔有一个更好答案。

Babbage started construction in 1823, and over the next two decades, tried to fabricate and assemble the 25,000 components, collectively weighing around 15 tons.

Charles Babbage于1823年开始造差分并在接下来二十年里，试图制造和组装25000个零件 这些零件总重接近15吨。

We've stood on the shoulders of giants like Babbage and Lovelace, Hollerith and Turing, Eckert and Hopper, Sutherland and Engelbart, Bush and Berners Lee, Gates and the Woz, and many other computing pioneers.

我们站在巨人肩膀上，如巴贝和洛夫莱斯、霍勒瑞斯和图灵、埃克特和霍珀、萨瑟兰和恩格尔巴特、布什和伯纳斯李、盖茨和沃兹，以及许多其他算先驱。