Get Up Close to Babbage’s Difference Engine in This Gigapixel Image
Charles Babbage ’s difference engine — the mechanical forerunner to today ’s digital computers — is a beautifully intricate machine . Now , you may take a real close looking at it usingthis gigapixel image . Babbage never in reality saw a play variation of his difference railway locomotive : his project coil out of control and became too expensive to complete . But , since , replicas have been made from the original plans , one of which is house at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View , California ....