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[Denison] The analytic engine had a property
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The analytic enginehad a property that Babbage calledeating its own tail

[Denison] The analytic engine
had a property that Babbage called
eating its own tail

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[Denison] The analytic engine had a property
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that Babbage called eating its own tail.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
20
Timestamp in Movie
00:38:11
Uploaded
May 30, 2025
Season
1
Episode
9
Genres
documentary
Production
A+E Networks,Blink Films

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Movie Summary

From a piece of meteorite found in Tutankhamun's tomb to the Crown of Thorns, explore some of the most perplexing and unusual objects lying hidden away in museums, laboratories and storage rooms.
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And sure enough, Harrison's right
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So you get current flow because electrons carry current,
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That is just the most extraordinary piece of publicity.
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[Kevin] This is the world that gives birth
S01 • E07 And that's the actual birthplace - Strangest Things 00:06
And that's the actual birthplace
S01 • E06 [dramatic music playing] - Strangest Things 00:08
[dramatic music playing]
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It would cycle through its calculations,
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During this time, the emperor Constantine,
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Through the use of electrodes,
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Unfortunately, Merryweather doesn't need
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[narrator] But this doesn't tell us when it was made.
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[narrator] It has led the scientists to a shocking conclusio...
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[Corey] But given the popularity of geomancy
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[Dr. Anna] If you swap the charges round and make the plate ...
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H1 is the first clock that proves
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You can date
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[Mark Benecke] When you die in water
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What we have here is a piece of the earth that's sittin...
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Gotz's iron hand seems like a relic of the distant past...
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He said that the whole of the government should install them