Where you been sleeping, man?
That hardware (=crucial, number-crunching part of the Mill) was finally implemented waaaay back in 2000 or thereabouts, and is now on display AND running (crank-powered) in The Science Museum in London, UK. Scientific American had a feature on it around then,too. Sorry, no urls.
Along the way, the two "implementers" discovered several "mechanical" errors in Babbage's original drawings, which would have prevented the Engine from fuctioning even had it been built; so they corrected them, and the concept proved viable after all.
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Where you been sleeping, man?
That hardware (=crucial, number-crunching part of the Mill) was finally implemented waaaay back in 2000 or thereabouts, and is now on display AND running (crank-powered) in The Science Museum in London, UK. Scientific American had a feature on it around then,too. Sorry, no urls.
Along the way, the two "implementers" discovered several "mechanical" errors in Babbage's original drawings, which would have prevented the Engine from fuctioning even had it been built; so they corrected them, and the concept proved viable after all.