COMPUTER GRAPHICS PIONEERS Computer Graphics in the UK: A Few People, Places and Events and sequence control mechanisms, observing that the idea of using linked gear wheels to record a carry can be traced back to the writings of Hero of Alexandria. It was in the early 17th century that the idea of using gear trains to build adding machines seems to have come to the fore, starting perhaps, with Wilhelm Schickard of Txbingen's development of the "calculating clock." Schickard's name is remembered in the title of the computer science department at the University of Txbingen, the Wilhelm Schickard Institute for Computer Science. Other inventions followed, in France and Germany, and the Frenchman, Charles Xavier Thomas, achieved the first commercial success with his arithmometer, a machine that supported addition and subtraction, multiplication and division [7]. In the UK, the most prominent early figure is Charles Babbage, born in London in 1791. Babbage became Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge in 1828. He became interested in the possibility of mechanising computation, a pursuit that at that time was largely driven by the need to produce accurate tables.The calculation of error-free mathematical tables (for example for navigation)
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Computer graphics in the UK: a few people, places and events
Duce, D. A.; Hopgood, F. R. A.
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, Volume 34 (3)
Association for Computing Machinery – Aug 1, 2000
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