An early calculator designed by Charles Babbage ... failed its test in 1833. Babbage then turned his attention to the Analytical Engine and completely abandoned the Difference Engine by 1842.

A programmable calculator designed by British scientist Charles Babbage. After his Difference Engine ... The parts of the Engine that were actually built did work however. THIS DEFINITION IS ...

English engineer Charles ... father's work after he died in 1871. Before his passing, in 1854 Swedish inventor Georg Scheutz successfully built a machine based on Babbage's Difference Engine ...

The central artifact of the exhibit, a faithful construction of Englishman Charles Babbage's Difference ... work with Charles Babbage on a sequence of calculations for his proposed Analytical Engine.

Do you remember Charles ... despite years of work, the project had run out of funding and was abandoned, leaving Babbage disappointed but not deterred. While the Difference Engine was an ...