Babbage Difference Engine #2 Time Lapse

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Channel: Computer History Museum · 2016 · Science & Technology

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[Recorded: July 23, 2012]

In development with Microsoft Research, CHM worked to produce a series of gigapixel images for a video of Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine #2 (no longer on display). This is a behind-the-scenes time lapse of the process.

Appears in @CHM blog post: http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/lit-shot-and-gigapixeled/

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