Friday, May 27, 2011

Charles Babbage

British mathematician Charles Babbage conceives the ideas for the Difference Machine and the Analytical Machine in the 1820s. The Difference Machine would automatically calculate mathematical tables. The Analytical Machine is intended to use loops to make decisions based on previous computations. These machines are the first to be considered as computers in the modern sense of the word.
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