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Marvelous Machines

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Babbage had shown that it was possible to create a machine that could solve any problem—well in theory at least, so of course after his death people set about building versions of his Analytical Engine, right?

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigram_frequency

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    The name may sound familiar as his grandson, also called William S. Burroughs was the famous writer and Beat Generation poet.

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Watson, I. (2012). Marvelous Machines. In: The Universal Machine. Copernicus, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28102-0_3

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