Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine Turns 200
Cars That Think
MAY 27, 2022
The government saw the value in a machine that could calculate the many numerical tables used for navigation, construction, finance, and engineering, thereby reducing human labor (and error). After yet another fight over finances, Clement abruptly quit in 1832. The Difference Engine was a calculator with 25,000 parts.
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