Simon Willison’s Weblog

The 100-year leap. John Graham-Cumming recounts the history of Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine and Analytical Engine, and proposes a project to build a working Analytical Engine 170 years after its invention (the machine built by the Science Museum in London is the Difference Engine).

# 6th October 2010, 9:26 am / ambition, charles-babbage, john-graham-cumming, science-museum, recovered