Operation punch cards for Analytical Engine
- Made:
- C. 1870 in England
This image is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence
This image is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence
This image is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence
This image is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence
Experimental models and moulds from Charles Babbage's work on calculating machines. Charles Babbage (1791-1871) was a
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Experimental models and moulds from Charles Babbage's work on calculating machines. Charles Babbage (1791-1871) was a
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Experimental models and moulds from Charles Babbage's work on calculating machines. Charles Babbage (1791-1871) was a
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Experimental models and moulds from Charles Babbage's work on calculating machines. Charles Babbage (1791-1871) was a
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Operation punch cards for Analytical Engine, nos. 1 - 22
In 1843 celebrated polymath Charles Babbage began work on an ambitious new calculating machines called the Analytical Engine. If completed it would likely have been the size of a large room, and would have used steam power to conduct its calculations by mvoing a complex set of cogs, leavers and punched cards. Babbage wanted it to be capable of addition, substraction, multiplication and division, its design containing much of the architecture that we would recognise in a modern-day computer. Instructions and data were entered into the engine using punched cards, with small 'operation cards' specifying the operations to be performed, and larger 'variable cards' defining where the value should be stored.
Details
- Category:
- Computing & Data Processing
- Object Number:
- 1905-181 Pt55/2
- credit:
- Major-General Babbage
Cite this page
Rights
We encourage the use and reuse of our collection data.
Data in the title, made, maker and details fields are released under Creative Commons Zero
Descriptions and all other text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence
Download
Download catalogue entry as json
View 
manifest in IIIF viewer
Add to Animal Crossing Art Generator
Download manifest IIIF
Our records are constantly being enhanced and improved, but please note that we cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information shown on this website.
