The machine is the Analytical Engine, and the famous Charles Babbage created it. Babbage made several changes to his first computer, the specialized Difference Engine, in 1834.

*One of the many Gothic aspects of the Difference Engine was that the device, which was never successfully built, was never quite entirely dead, either. Babbage's youngest son, a career military ...

The Difference Engine This impression from a woodcut was printed in 1853 showing a portion of the Difference Engine that was built in 1833. Babbage later turned his attention to the Analytical Engine.

The Analytical Engine followed Babbage's work on the Difference Engine A UK campaign to build a truck-sized, prototype computer first envisaged in 1837 is gathering steam. More than 1,600 people ...

Babbage never fully finished the expanded Difference Engine, which he began calling the "Analytical Engine," but parts of the original ran smoothly in displays and kept bringing him more attention.

A steam-powered computer designed by the 19th century mathematician Charles Babbage could finally be built after a campaign was launched to bring his dream to life.

The Analytical Engine is credited as being the first example of a general purpose computer and was conceived as a multi-functional machine that could perform different types of calculations.

He began work on the analytical engine after creating a calculator, called the difference engine, and continued honing the design until his death in 1871.

See analytical database engine, Difference Engine, Mark I and An-E. Analytical Engine Programming the Analytical Engine might have been a bit more tedious than programming one of today's computers.