False Dawn: The Babbage Engine
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 Published On Nov 17, 2014

CHM Exhibition "Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing"

Charles Babbage (1791-1871), computer pioneer, designed the first automatic computing engines. He invented computers but failed to build them. The first complete Babbage Engine was completed in London in 2002, 153 years after it was designed. Difference Engine No. 2, built faithfully to the original drawings, consists of 8,000 parts, weighs five tons, and measures 11 feet long.

Catalog Number: 102695004
Lot Number: X6142.2011

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