Maker Faire Bay Area 2008
Babbage's Difference Engine

Maker Main Stage (Fiesta) , Saturday 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Learn about the Victorian inventor Charles Babbage and his Difference Engine No. 2, which goes on display at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.

Web site: http://www.computerhistory.org/

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Topic(s): Engineering | Science

Tags: computation history Babbage engineering computing

About the Maker(s)

Computer History Museum The Museum is dedicated to the preservation and celebration of computing history, and is home to one of the largest international collections of computing artifacts in the world, encompassing computer hardware, ephemera, photographs, moving images, documents and software.

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