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Pehr-Georg and Edvard Scheutz’s Difference Engine Explained — Everything You Need To Know

Charles Babbage is widely recognized for inventing the first mechanical computer, the Difference Engine, in 1821. However, he never managed to build any of his many designs. Pehr-Georg Scheutz, a ...
The Boston Globe

‘Lovelace and Babbage’ opera is a sincerely funny alternate history

Ada Lovelace is having a moment. The Victorian mathematician and proto-computer programmer has long been one of precious few historical role models for scientifically inclined young girls; but as the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Booting Up a Computer Pioneer’s 200-Year-Old Design

Frustrated by human error, mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage designed a machine to perform mathematical functions and automatically print the results. Library of Congress When today’s number ...
Moviefone

Babbages Calculating Machine or Difference Engine (1968)

A rare liveaction and closeup study of the only existing Babbage Difference Engine a machine designed in the first quarter of the 19thCentury by English inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage The ...
Palo Alto Weekly

Review: The Pear’s ‘Ada and the Engine’ looks at what drove a Victorian-era computing genius

Angel Lin plays Ada Lovelace, a math genius and daughter of the infamous poet Lord Byron, in “Ada and the Engine” at The Pear. Courtesy Mikenzie Gilbert Photography. Seeing “Ada and the Engine” is ...