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Model of Babbage's Difference Engine No. 1 - Replica

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a replica of the portion of a ...
Smithsonian Magazine

What a Difference the Difference Engine Made: From Charles Babbage’s Calculator Emerged Today’s Computer

As you might expect from its name, the "Difference Engine" is a strangely difficult object to describe. You might start by imagining the side of a large crib with uprights ringed by small metal wheels ...
Moviefone

Babbage Difference Engine No 2

Charles Babbage 17911871 computer pioneer designed the first automatic computing engines He invented computers but failed to build them The first complete Babbage Engine was completed in London in ...
Publishers Weekly

THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer

Englishman Charles Babbage (1791–1871), an eccentric, ingenious mathematician, decided that existing tables of computations included far too many errors: the day's textbooks came with errata sheets ...
Moviefone

Babbages Calculating Machine or Difference Engine (1968)

A rare liveaction and closeup study of the only existing Babbage Difference Engine a machine designed in the first quarter of the 19thCentury by English inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage The ...