Social Science FQ #2

How did Charles Babbage anticipate the Analytical Engine being different from the Difference Engine?

• a. The Analytical Engine would run solely on steam power.

• b. The Analytical Engine would perform more mathematical operations.

• c. The Analytical Engine would be constructed of more durable materials.

• d. The Analytical Engine would be more compact.

• e. The Analytical Engine would be used on land.

Charles Babbage's work relied on funding from

• a. commercial seafaring firms

• b. the Royal Society

• c. a Swiss bank

• d. a wealthy aristocrat

• e. the British government

Whose daughter was Ada Lovelace?

• a. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's

• b. Percy Shelley's

• c. Alfred Tennyson's

• d. John Keats's

• e. George Byron's

Ada Lovelace devised an algorithm that could be used to find

• a. the golden ratio

• b. the Fibonacci sequence

• c. the least common factor

• d. Bernoulli numbers

• e. perfect squares

Ada Lovelace is sometimes referred to as the first

• a. analytical engineer

• b. hardware developer

• c. computational savant

• d. applied mathematician

• e. computer programmer

Charles Babbage designed the Difference Engine to perform the operation of

• a. square root

• b. addition

• c. subtraction

• d. multiplication

• e. division

Why did Charles Babbage lose continued funding for his inventions?

• a. He refused to share the technology behind his inventions with his financial backers.

• b. He personally insulted a wealthy and socially influential patron.

• c. He asked for money for the Analytical Engine before the completion of the Difference Engine.

• d. He faced criminal charges and became a social pariah.

• e. He spent the money he received to create the Difference Engine on commercial speculation.

Which of the following industries spurred the development of the telegram?

• a. railroad

• b. mining

• c. printing

• d. banking

• e. agriculture

Early telegraphy machines were MOST often located in

• a. schools

• b. churches

• c. police stations

• d. post offices

• e. banks

Ada Lovelace translated a report on the Analytical Engine that was originally written in

• a. French

• b. Spanish

• c. German

• d. English

• e. Dutch