Difference Engine No. 1 was built by Babbage and his engineer, and is still on display in the London Science Museum. This is the small machine that stands about one meter tall, not the Engine that stands two meters tall with the Toshiba laptop to show the output.
Engine No. 1 was demonstrated to the British Govt. to secure a Govt. grant to build the machine that was only completed in 1991.
Ada's programs are still around on her original punchcards, a few are in the above museum, others are held in trust. (And there were other machines reading punchcards before this.)
A machine based on Babbages original work was built and sold to the British Govt. in Babbages lifetime by the Swedish!
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Difference Engine No. 1 was built by Babbage and his engineer, and is still on display in the London Science Museum. This is the small machine that stands about one meter tall, not the Engine that stands two meters tall with the Toshiba laptop to show the output.
Engine No. 1 was demonstrated to the British Govt. to secure a Govt. grant to build the machine that was only completed in 1991.
Ada's programs are still around on her original punchcards, a few are in the above museum, others are held in trust. (And there were other machines reading punchcards before this.)
A machine based on Babbages original work was built and sold to the British Govt. in Babbages lifetime by the Swedish!
-Roy