The Design of the Analytical Engine (jan 1, 1837 – jan 1, 1871)
Description:
A general purpose mechanical computer designed by Charles Babbage. It is the successor to the difference engine.- Seen as a key step towards along the development of modern computers
- Used punching cards to feed information into the machine
- Ada Lovelace wrote the first 'computer program/algorithm' that was read by a machine
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Date:
jan 1, 1837
jan 1, 1871
~ 34 years