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a tireless promise made of metal: do the work, want nothing, never sleep
means A device built of moving parts that uses energy to do work, taking force or instruction in and putting useful action out.
from From Latin 'machina' — a contrivance, device, or engine — borrowed in turn from the Greek 'mēkhanē', meaning a means, an expedient, a clever trick. That same Greek root gives us 'mechanic' and even 'machination', the scheming kind of cleverness. So a machine is, etymologically, less about metal than about cunning: a problem solved by ingenuity rather than muscle. The word reached English through French ('machine') around the 16th century, first naming theatrical and military contrivances before it ever meant the steam-and-gear sort.
- origin word
- Greek mekhane meant a clever device or trick
- deus ex
- Greek plays lowered gods by literal stage machine
- simple six
- all complex machines reduce to six classic ones
- political slang
- a machine once meant a vote-rigging party network
- never tires
- only friction, not boredom, ever stops one
the analytical engine — charles babbage's 1837 design, considered the first general-purpose computer
jacquard loom — joseph marie jacquard's 1804 silk loom, first machine controlled by punch cards
difference engine — babbage's 1822 mechanical calculator for computing polynomial functions