After his Difference Engine failed its test in 1833, Babbage started the design of the Analytical Engine in 1834. Developed in spurts due to lack of funds and constant redesign, a trial model was ...

It seems [Chris] is going back in time about 150 years and has set his sights on a 3D printed version of [Babbage]’s Analytical Engine. The Analytical Engine was is a remarkable feat of ...

Software that provides multiple views into a database of numerical information. The data are maintained in a non-redundant database, and the views are displayed in a traditional spreadsheet ...

When an engine is hauling a train from the front, it does so by pulling on the couplings between each of the coaches behind it. As a result, the two bumpers that each of those coaches also have in ...

By that point, Babbage's interests had shifted to designing the "Analytical Engine," which was first described in 1837. The Analytical Engine comprised an arithmetic logic unit, conditional ...

V. Boys, F.R.S. for his assistance on the subject of analytical machines. Ludgate also refers to the work of Charles Babbage who had previously invented two Difference Engines and then and ...

Babbage's next idea is the Analytical Engine - a mechanical computer that can solve any mathematical problem. It uses punch-cards similar to those used by the Jacquard loom and can perform simple ...