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" 。

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

她把它拿给巴贝奇看 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.

你可能知道巴贝奇是计算机之父，而赫歇尔是天王星的发现者。

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的草稿建成了一个差分机 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.

分析机将会激励（可以这么讲）第一代计算机科学家，这些计算机科学家们将许多Charles Babbage的想法纳入他们的机器。

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，在差分机的建造期间 Charles Babbage想象了一个更复杂的机器 - 分析机。

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巴贝奇的晚宴之前，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的乐趣、笑声、多巴胺之外没有真正的目的，但他们改变了巴贝奇的生活。

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

纸质打印机非常有用，甚至 Babbage 也为他的差分机设计了一台，那是在 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，赫歇尔问了巴贝奇一个问题，“你如何能同时看到硬币的两面？”