Analytical Engine
PROPOSED MECHANICAL GENERAL-PURPOSE COMPUTER, DESIGNED BY CHARLES BABBAGE
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<
history> A design for a general-purpose digital computer
proposed by
Charles Babbage in 1837 as a successor to his
earlier special-purpose
Difference Engine.
The Analytical
Engine was to be built from brass gears powered
by steam with input given on
punched cards. Babbage could
never secure enough funding to build it, and so it was, and
never has been, constructed.
http://fourmilab.ch/babbage/.
(1998-10-19)