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winding The Babbage Engine

The Babbage Engine

 

"Charles Babbage (1791-1871), 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 2002, 153 years after it was designed. Difference Engine No. 2, built faithfully to the original drawings, consists of 8,000 parts, weighs five tons, and measures 11 feet long."

www.computerhistory.org/babbage/

 

Computer History Museum

Mountain View, CA

www.computerhistory.org/

 

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Uploaded on May 26, 2009
Taken on May 23, 2009