Tag: history
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My Mechanical Calculator: How and Why
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in CreationsThis is my homemade mechanical calculator. For the why and how it works, I made this video about it: To give a little more about how I made it, I dug up old drawings I made of the parts. What follows is an explanation of making the calculator using those as a guide. After studying…
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The Mēchanē in Prometheus Bound: Recognizing the Role of Technology on Stage
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in WritingsThis is a Classics essay I wrote that was then published in an academic journal, Discentes. This is an essay I originally wrote for a Classics seminar at college. As a senior seminar for Classics majors and minors, it attempted to draw on and explore many dimensions of Greek and Roman antiquity through analyzing Greek…
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More Details: Mechanical Calculator
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in CreationsThis is an older post from before I finished the calculator. First watch this video: When the ever-opitimistic Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz hired the Parisian clockmaker Ollivier to materialize Leibniz’s design for a mechanical calculator in 1672, the philosopher payed the artisan a fixed sum for three weeks of work. Instead, the two took forty years…
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