Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine number 1
Charles Babbage donated several pieces of his Difference Engine number 1 to the museum during a visit to Exeter in 1869. These pieces are from his first attempt to design a mechanical calculator. Babbage is now regarded as one of the key people in the development of computers.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 440/1974/3
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Babbage, Charles
- Material
- metalbrass
- Common Name
- Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine number 1
- Simple Name
- calculating machine
- Period Classification
- Georgian (1714-1837); Victorian (1837-1901)
