False Dawn: The Babbage Engine

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Keywords
Charles Babbage Ada Lovelace Analytical Engine Difference Engine mathematical table mechanical calculation printer Computer History Museum Babbage Engine computing engine computer inventor automaton calculating engine mechanical invention coding system Doron Swade Nathan Myhrvold intelligent machines
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History-Social Science STEAM
Grade Levels
Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12
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False Dawn: The Babbage Engine

Charles Babbage (1791 - 1871), computer pioneer, designed the first automatic computing 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 No. 2, built faithfully to the original drawings, consists of 8,000 parts, weighs five tons, and measures 11 feet long.
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