http://simonwillison.net/2010-10-06T09:26:00+00:00Simon Willison2010-10-06T09:26:00+00:002010-10-06T09:26:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Oct/6/babbage/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/10/the-100-year-leap.html">The 100-year leap</a></strong></p> John Graham-Cumming recounts the history of Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine and Analytical Engine, and proposes a project to build a working Analytical Engine 170 years after its invention (the machine built by the Science Museum in London is the Difference Engine). <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/charles-babbage">charles-babbage</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/john-graham-cumming">john-graham-cumming</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/recovered">recovered</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ambition">ambition</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/science-museum">science-museum</a></p>