Vocabulary

Abacus

Gear

Bone

Slab

slide rule

Card

Pebble

draw-loom

Device

Wire

Needle

Finite

Desktop calculator

metal drum

Mill

mechanical calculator

thread, treadle

punch/punched

Wheel

Treadle

Silk

computational devices

four basic arithmetic operations

to perform multiplication and division

ivory rods

pattern of holes

roll of paper

to form the pattern

figured silk

automated pattern weaving

difference engine

analytical engine

stored-program digital computers

programmable instructions

operating cards

specific functions

variable cards

actual data

arithmetic unit

to subtract -

to extend -

to control -

to multiply -

to implement -

to instruct -

to divide -

to produce -

to provide -

to develop -

maintain-

to indicate -

to rotate -

to design -

to establish -

to invent -

to produce -

1. mathematics -

9. selection -

2. physics -

10. indication -

3. program -

11. poetry -

4. control -

12. production -

5. history -

13. instruction -

6. design -

decimal - [desim(E)l]

finite - [`fainait]

logarithm - [logF‚riZ(E)m]

idea - [ai`diE]

weave - [wi¦v]

feature - [`fGtXF]

programmable - [`prFugrQmbl]

data - [`deitF]

instruction - [in'strVkX(E)n]

develop - [di`vFlFp]

major - [`meidJF]

digit - [`didJit]

1. result in

2. a step toward

3. a series of punched cards

4. function like

5. providing sets of instructions

6. automated pattern weaving

7. they passed over a series of rods

8. major advance

9. a working version

10. to develop the idea

11. similar to

12. by means of