Ludgate also refers to the work of Charles Babbage who had previously invented two Difference Engines and then and Analytical Machine. However, Babbage died before his machine was completed and ...

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Babbage believed that a machine could be built to perform these calculations accurately and efficiently, eliminating the risk ...

Before his passing, in 1854 Swedish inventor Georg Scheutz successfully built a machine based on Babbage's Difference Engine and this system went on to be used by the British and American ...

The machine which Ada prophesised could create music was Babbage’s invention after all – surely he must have known it’s potential? Although she certainly published the world’s first ...