The Difference Engine This impression from a woodcut was printed in 1853 showing a portion of the Difference Engine that was built in 1833. Babbage later turned his attention to the Analytical Engine.

*One of the many Gothic aspects of the Difference Engine was that the device, which was never successfully built, was never quite entirely dead, either. Babbage's youngest son, a career military ...

See analytical database engine, Difference Engine, Mark I and An-E. Analytical Engine Programming the Analytical Engine might have been a bit more tedious than programming one of today's computers.

The Analytical Engine followed Babbage's work on the Difference Engine A UK campaign to build a truck-sized, prototype computer first envisaged in 1837 is gathering steam. More than 1,600 people ...

Charles Babbage Analytical Engine History It seems like a marvel that the world’s first digital computer, which included about every key concept of the current digital computer in its mechanical ...

Babbage never completed either a difference engine or a more complex, programmable instrument he dubbed an analytical engine. The machine has three columns of discs.

A fully-functional Babbage Difference Engine? That's been done and duplicated. But the even more ambitious Babbage Analytical Engine? That's another story completely. Devised by mathematician ...

The Analytical Engine was is a remarkable feat of engineering and machining. It was the first programmable computer. Shame, then, that it was never built in the 1800s.