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.

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.

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 ...

*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 ...

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 ...

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.

This photo depicts a section of the "Difference Engine," a mechanical calculator designed by Charles Babbage between 1823 and 1842, which many consider the first computer. Babbage never completed ...

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.

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 ...