Analytical Engine
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Analytical Engine
History
The Analytical Engine was, or would have been if it had ever been completed, the world's first general-purpose computer. It was designed in the 1830s by the English mathemati...
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Early Life
Charles
Babbage
was born in
Devon
on December 26 1791. A dazzlingly intelligent boy, he taught himself advanced mathematics at an early age and became a star student at Cambridge Uni...
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Analytical Engine
Analytical Engine
Inventor Profile: CharlesBabbage
