
Henry Babbage's analytical engine (incomplete), with various spare parts and patterns for casting. Henry Prevost Babbage (1824-1918), the youngest son of Charles Babbage (1791-1871), the English computer pioneer, built a hand-operated printing calculator, based on the plans for the mill of his father's Analytical Engine. It was a four-function calulator designed for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Details
- Category:
- Computing & Data Processing
- Object Number:
- 1896-58
- Materials:
- various metals, steel, brass, bronze etc and wood (unidentified)
- type:
- analytical engine mills
- credit:
- Babbage, Major-General H.P.
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