{"id":2,"date":"2008-05-02T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/2008\/05\/02\/a-device-of-rare-miracle\/"},"modified":"2008-05-02T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T13:52:00","slug":"a-device-of-rare-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/2008\/05\/02\/a-device-of-rare-miracle\/","title":{"rendered":"A device of rare miracle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night The Mole went to an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerhistory.org\/events\/index.php?id=1206647564\">event<\/a>\u00a0at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerhistory.org\/\">Computer History Museum<\/a>\u00a0where\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerhistory.org\/staff\/Doron,Swade\/\">Doron Swade<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nathan_Myhrvold\">Nathan Myhrvold<\/a>\u00a0spoke about the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerhistory.org\/babbage\/\">Difference Engine #2<\/a>\u00a0that has just arrived at the museum. The machine itself astonishes, the vindication of Charles Babbage is a monumental achievement, Babbage&#8217;s insights and vision are amazing. (Myhrvold&#8217;s expenditures on the effort, though not revealed in detail, must have been jaw-dropping.)<\/p>\n<p>The Mole cannot begin to convey the depths of wonder the Engine triggered. It will be on display at the museum for a year before taking up residence in Myhrvold&#8217;s living room. Go see it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night The Mole went to an\u00a0event\u00a0at the\u00a0Computer History Museum\u00a0where\u00a0Doron Swade\u00a0and\u00a0Nathan Myhrvold\u00a0spoke about the\u00a0Difference Engine #2\u00a0that has just arrived at the museum. The machine itself astonishes, the vindication of Charles Babbage is a monumental achievement, Babbage&#8217;s insights and vision are amazing. (Myhrvold&#8217;s expenditures on the effort, though not revealed in detail, must have been jaw-dropping.)&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/2008\/05\/02\/a-device-of-rare-miracle\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A device of rare miracle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mole-end","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}