- How it Works | Babbage Engine | Computer History Museum
Difference engines are so called because of the mathematical principle on which they are based, namely, the method of finite differences In general, calculating the value of a polynomial can require any or all of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
- The Babbage Engine | Babbage Engine | Computer History Museum - CHM
Difference Engine No 2, built faithfully to the original drawings, consists of 8,000 parts, weighs five tons, and measures 11 feet long We invite you to learn more about this extraordinary object, its designer Charles Babbage and the team of people who undertook to build it
- A Modern Sequel | Babbage Engine | Computer History Museum
In 1985 the Science Museum in London set out to construct a working Difference Engine No 2 built faithfully to Babbage's original designs dating from 1847-9 The project was led by the then Curator of Computing, Doron Swade
- A Brief History | Babbage Engine | Computer History Museum
In 1834, with the Difference Engine project stalled, Babbage conceived of a new more ambitious machine, later called the Analytical Engine - a general-purpose programmable computing machine
- THE BABBAGE DIFFERENCE ENGINE NO. 2 - CHM
From 1847 to 1849, Charles Babbage designed “Difference Engine No 2,” an automatic computing engine, but failed to build it He died insisting future generations would prove his idea was sound
- Ada Lovelace | Babbage Engine | Computer History Museum
The collaboration with Babbage was close and biographers debate the extent and originality of Ada's contribution Perhaps more importantly, the article contained statements by Ada that from a modern perspective are visionary
- Georg Edvard Scheutz | Babbage Engine | Computer History Museum
Inspired in 1834 by Babbage's work, Georg Scheutz (1785-1873) a Swedish printer, publisher, journalist, translator and inventor, set about building a difference engine of his own
- Overview | Babbage Engine | Computer History Museum
Finally, in 2002, the first full-size Babbage Engine (Difference Engine No 2), built faithfully to the original designs, was completed at the Science Museum in London, the culmination of a seventeen year project
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