The Difference Engine is a calculator ... ran smoothly in displays and kept bringing him more attention. "Now Mr. Babbage," said one woman after listening to his explanation of it, "there is ...

Babbage then turned his attention to the Analytical Engine and completely abandoned the Difference Engine by 1842. Although never completed, it did improve the precision of Britain's machine-tool ...

Babbage's machines include a mechanical calculator called the "Difference Engine" which started its development in 1823 following £1,700 in funding from the British government, who wound up ...

A programmable calculator designed by British scientist Charles Babbage. After his Difference Engine failed its test in 1833, Babbage started the design of the Analytical Engine in 1834.

Charles Babbage ... 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 ...

A view shared by Doron Swade – an expert in the history of computing and, while a curator at the Science Museum in London, the man responsible for bringing Babbage’s Difference Engine to life.