150-Year-Old Computer Brought to Life
April 25, 2008 | Source: ScientificAmerican.com
Designed nearly 150 years ago but never actually built until recently, one of two Babbage Difference Engines will go on display for the first time in North America, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, starting May 10.
The Difference Engine, a complex mechanical computer, can handle logarithms and trigonometry (Doron Swade)