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   Jul 24, 2023 · Charles Babbage is widely recognized for inventing the first mechanical computer, the Difference Engine, in 1821. However, he never managed to build any of his many designs. Pehr-Georg Scheutz, a Swedish lawyer, translator, and inventor, and his son Edvard created the first operational and commercially viable Difference Engine in 1843.

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   Mar 27, 2024 · Half a world away in Sweden, an unlikely duo would pick up where Babbage left off. Lawyer and linguist Pehr Georg Scheutz and his engineer son Edvard dedicated over 15 years of their lives to making Babbage’s vision a reality.

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   Who invented the Scheutzian calculation engine?

   • He is most known for his inventions; the best known of these is the Scheutzian calculation engine, invented in 1837 and finalized in 1843. This machine, which he constructed with his son Edvard Scheutz, was based on Charles Babbage 's difference engine.

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   How did Georg Scheutz learn about Babbage?

   • In 1834 Georg Scheutz published a small book containing an invention which was an improvement on Napier's "bones." In the same year Scheutz learned the details of Babbage's work on the Difference Engine through the publication of Dionysius Lardner. [Lardner, Dionysius, "Babbage's Calculating Engine," Edinburgh Review, No. 120, July 1834.]

   Computer Pioneers - (Pehr) Georg Scheutz

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   Why did Pehr and Edvard support Babbage?

   • Pehr and Edvard were deeply grateful for Babbage’s support. “Inventors are so seldom found that acknowledge the efforts of others in identical aims,” the father wrote Babbage from Stockholm in 1856, that your liberality in this respect has, as we hear, made éclat in the French scientific world.

   2.6 The Scheutzes’ Tabulating Machine | Bit by Bit

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   Why did Dr Gould fire Edvard Scheutz?

   • Dr. Gould put Edvard Scheutz (1821-1881) it aside for a year, and finally used it to calculate a set of tables relating to the orbit of Mars. But the observatory’s trustees were unhappy with Dr. Gould’s stewardship – among other things, they considered the purchase of the Scheutz difference engine as ill-advised – and fired him in 1859.

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4. history-computer.com › people › pehr-georg-scheutzPehr-Georg Scheutz – Complete Biography, History, and Inventions

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   Apr 16, 2024 · Scheutz is most famous for his inventions, especially the first commercial Difference Engine called the Scheutz Calculation Engine that he invented alongside his son, Edvard-Georg Rapheal, in 1837. Pehr George Scheutz died on May 22, 1873.

5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Per_Georg_ScheutzPer Georg Scheutz - Wikipedia

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   Pehr (Per) Georg Scheutz (23 September 1785 – 22 May 1873) was a Swedish lawyer, translator, and inventor, who is now best known for his pioneering work in computer technology.

   • Born: Pehr Georg Scheutz, 23 September 1785
   • Nationality: Swedish

   • Died: 22 May 1873 (aged 87)
   • Occupation(s): Lawyer, translator, inventor

6. americanhistory.si.edu › collections › nmah_997042Scheutz Difference Engine - National Museum of American History

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   Although Babbage's machine was never completed, it inspired the Swedish publisher Georg Scheutz and his son Edvard to build this instrument. It was exhibited at the world's fair held in Paris in 1855 and sold to the Dudley Observatory in Schenectedy, New York.

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   Pehr George Scheutz (1785-1873) The Difference Engine received a great deal of publicity, and it was only a matter of time before such a machine was built, if not by Babbage then by someone else. In 1834, Pehr Georg Scheutz, a technical editor, printer, and publisher in Stockholm, Sweden, read an account of the project in the Edinburgh Review ...

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   Scheutz began to experiment with models of wood, pasteboard, and wire, and soon developed some improvements with the assistance and ingenuity of his son Edvard, then a teenager. By 1842 they had built a calculating unit which was capable of third order differences; they completed their first engine in 1843, including the printing unit.