The Design of the Analytical Engine (1 jan 1837 ano – 1 jan 1871 ano)

Descrição:

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