Discover Charles Babbage's Revolutionary Difference Engine No. 2 🤖

Explore the history and innovation behind Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2, a groundbreaking mechanical calculator from the 1840s that paved the way for modern computing.

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The Difference Engine was an accurate mechanical calculator designed by Charles Babbage in the 1840s, but was never built in its inventor's lifetime. Here, its modern builder explains how it works.

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