Abstract
Charles Babbage died in 1871. He commenced the Difference Engine about 1822, and the Government abandoned it in 1842. He commenced the Analytical Engine about 1833.
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Babbage, H.P. (1982). Babbage’s Analytical Engine. In: Randell, B. (eds) The Origins of Digital Computers. Texts and Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61812-3_4
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