Babbage Computes

In the 1800s Charles Babbage designed the Difference and Analytical Engines — machines as ambitious in their time as today’s space telescopes. The first was started in 1820, abandoned when funding failed, and finally built in the 1980s by the London Science Museum. The Analytical Engine was the first computer, a design understood deeply by Ada Lovelace, who was the first to publish a program. This project explores that remarkable vision and shows progress on building a working model.