The Engine
The Engine is a fictional device described in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift in 1726. It is possibly the earliest known reference to a device in any way resembling a modern computer. It is a device that generates permutations of word sets. It is found at the Academy of Projectors in Lagado and is described thus by Swift: Stanisław Lem in Summa Technologiae (1964) and connect the machine with the Ars Magna of Ramon Llull (1275), a mechanical device for combining ideas to create new ones.
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The Engine
The Engine is a fictional device described in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift in 1726. It is possibly the earliest known reference to a device in any way resembling a modern computer. It is a device that generates permutations of word sets. It is found at the Academy of Projectors in Lagado and is described thus by Swift: Stanisław Lem in Summa Technologiae (1964) and connect the machine with the Ars Magna of Ramon Llull (1275), a mechanical device for combining ideas to create new ones.
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La Machine à écrire est une in ...... ation de l'ordinateur moderne.
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The Engine is a fictional devi ...... ning ideas to create new ones.
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ザ・エンジン（The Engine）は、『ガリヴァー旅行記』 ...... 組み合わせ新しい概念を作り出す機械から発想されたものである。
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La Machine à écrire est une in ...... ation de l'ordinateur moderne.
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The Engine is a fictional devi ...... ning ideas to create new ones.
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ザ・エンジン（The Engine）は、『ガリヴァー旅行記』 ...... 組み合わせ新しい概念を作り出す機械から発想されたものである。
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Machine à écrire (Gulliver)
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The Engine
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ザ・エンジン
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