The BABBAGE Pages

Calculating Engines

Calculating machines have a long history, dating at least from a wooden machine make by Schickard of Tubingen, a friend of Kepler.

Babbage designed several Difference Engines, and prepared many plans for Analystical Engines.

A late design for an Analytical Engine.

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Maintainer & date: R.A.Hyman@ex.ac.uk January 08, 1997
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