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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
(6840)
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
(6840)