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history A design for a general-purpose digital computer
proposed by Charles Babbage in 1837 as a successor to his
earlier special-purpose Difference Engine.
The Analytical Engine was to be built from brass gears powered
by steam with input given on punched cards. Babbage could
never secure enough funding to build it, and so it was, and
never has been, constructed.
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(1998-10-19)