Science Museum visit, 2005

Difference Engine

To my delight, the first thing I saw when I entered the exhibition was a real, full-size, operational Difference Engine. Of course, they had to put the thing inside a glass case, or people like me would've been all over it. I'd wanted to see this ever since taking a History of Computing class at university. Not a Babbage original — he never completed his — but a replica built by the museum according to Babbage's plans, and with the bugs fixed.

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