{"id":7490,"date":"2012-07-27T19:23:05","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T11:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=7490"},"modified":"2012-07-27T19:23:05","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T11:23:05","slug":"the-greatest-math-machine-that-never-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/the-greatest-math-machine-that-never-was-7490","title":{"rendered":"The greatest (math) machine that never was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Programmer John Graham-Cumming gives us a brief history of what was arguably the very first computer, designed by Charles Babbage in the 1830s. He never built it and nobody has since.<\/p>\n<p>It was a computer (not just a mechanical calculator) because it was programmable.<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4rzAL5YwFow\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/the-greatest-math-machine-that-never-was-7490\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2012\/07\/babbage-analytic-engine.jpg\" alt=\"babbage analytic engine\" title=\"babbage analytic engine\" width=\"128\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCharles Babbage designed a mechanical, steam-powered \"computer\" in the 1830s. Here's the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}