Difference Engine 2. It was one of two types of engine difference engines and analytical engines designed by babbage. In 1991 the engine was faithfully built to plan and functioned exactly as predicted.
The engine was built by the science museum and the main part was completed in june 1991 for the bicentennial year of babbage s birth. The 1991 difference engine 2 is on display at the london museum of science along with half of babbage s brain. In 2008 a second.
2 which was on exhibit at the computer history museum in mountain view california from 10 may 2008 until 31 january 2016.
In 1991 the engine was faithfully built to plan and functioned exactly as predicted. He invented the cowcatcher reformed the british postal system and was a pioneer in. Difference engine an early calculating machine verging on being the first computer designed and partially built during the 1820s and 30s by charles babbage. In 1991 the engine was faithfully built to plan and functioned exactly as predicted.
