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'''Mitchell, Edward Page. "The Ablest Man in the World."''' ''New York Sun 4 May 1879 (plublished unattributed). ¶¶ Wikipedia entry summarizes key issue: "Baron Savitch grew up in a mental asylum and was mute and retarded. Rapperschwyll found him there one day and, with his skill in medicine and watchmaking, made a clockwork brain for Savitch which is explicitly superior to Charles Babbage's difference engine. With this mechanical brain, Baron Savitch cannot make a mistake and with time will rise to become the next Napoleon."[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ablest_Man_in_the_World] In an unpublished ms., John J. Pierce describes the "clockwork brain" as a kind of "mini-computer." | '''Mitchell, Edward Page. "The Ablest Man in the World."''' ''New York Sun 4 May 1879 (plublished unattributed). ¶¶ Wikipedia entry summarizes key issue: "Baron Savitch grew up in a mental asylum and was mute and retarded. Rapperschwyll found him there one day and, with his skill in medicine and watchmaking, made a clockwork brain for Savitch which is explicitly superior to Charles Babbage's difference engine. With this mechanical brain, Baron Savitch cannot make a mistake and with time will rise to become the next Napoleon."[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ablest_Man_in_the_World] In an unpublished ms., John J. Pierce describes the "clockwork brain" as a kind of "mini-computer." | ||
| − | See the US TV series ''[[Intelligence (US TV | + | See the US TV series ''[[Intelligence (US TV Series)|Intelligence]]'', episode of 31 March 2014 for naming after Baron Savitch of main character, who has a microchip brain implant. |
Revision as of 00:30, 1 April 2018
Mitchell, Edward Page. "The Ablest Man in the World." New York Sun 4 May 1879 (plublished unattributed). ¶¶ Wikipedia entry summarizes key issue: "Baron Savitch grew up in a mental asylum and was mute and retarded. Rapperschwyll found him there one day and, with his skill in medicine and watchmaking, made a clockwork brain for Savitch which is explicitly superior to Charles Babbage's difference engine. With this mechanical brain, Baron Savitch cannot make a mistake and with time will rise to become the next Napoleon."[1] In an unpublished ms., John J. Pierce describes the "clockwork brain" as a kind of "mini-computer."
See the US TV series Intelligence, episode of 31 March 2014 for naming after Baron Savitch of main character, who has a microchip brain implant.
RDE, with thanks to John J. Pierce, 31March18
