Tagged with Ada Lovelace

Resource : Difference Engine No.1 or ‘The Gem of all Mechanisms’

The Difference Engine aimed to mechanise the process of calculation. Composed of thousands of cogs, springs, brackets and other moving parts, it was designed to perform a multitude of calculations, as opposed to a single sum, surpassing anything that had gone before it. It was designed by Charles Babbage (1791-1871), who dreamed of creating an automatic, error-free, calculating machine. A machine, which today, would be recognised as a computer.