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

她把它拿给看 然后说：“我难道不能写得比这更好吗？”

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

然而，在1991年 历史家根据Charles Babbage的草稿建成了一个差分 而且它能正常使用！

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

但更重要的是，在差分的建造期间 Charles Babbage想象了一个更复杂的器 - 分析。

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

视觉持久性的想法可以追溯到的晚宴之前，甚至可以追溯到古希腊和埃及。

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）第一代计算家，这些计算家们将许多Charles Babbage的想法纳入他们的器。

Babbage imagined an even more complex machine - the Analytical Engine.

Charles Babbage 构想了一个更复杂的器 - 分析。

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的乐趣、笑声、多胺之外没有真正的目的，但他们改变了的生活。

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

晚饭后，赫歇尔问了一个问题，“你如何能同时看到硬币的两面？”

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 也为他的差分设计了一台，那是在 1820 年代！

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年开始建造差分并在接下来的二十年里，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.

我们站在巨人的肩膀上，如和洛夫莱斯、霍勒瑞斯和图灵、埃克特和霍珀、萨瑟兰和恩格尔特、布什和伯纳斯李、盖茨和沃兹，以及许多其他计算先驱。

Mathematician Charles Babbage was there with astronomer William Herschel.

数家查尔斯·和天文家威廉·赫歇尔出席了。

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

这就是为什么Charles Babbage经常被认为是" 计算之父" 。

They happened to capture the imagination of one young boy who visited the shop named Charles Babbage.

他们碰巧激发了一个名叫查尔斯·的小男孩的想象力。

Lovelace was a mathematician who was an associate of Charles Babbage, the man who first designed the digital computer.

洛芙莱斯是一位数家，他是查尔斯·的同事，是最早设计数字计算的人。

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

你可能知道是计算之父，而赫歇尔是天王星的发现者。

Charles Babbage proposed a new mechanical device called the Difference Engine, a much more complex machine that could approximate polynomials.

Charles Babbage提出了一种称为差分的新型械装置这是一个可以近似多项式的更加复杂的器。

I developed very slowly and it took nearly 200 years before I was built as an analytical machine by Charles Babbage.

在我被Charles Babbage改造成分析器之前我很慢的发展了接近两百年。