[geeks] Difference Engine at the Computer History Museum

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Thu Apr 10 09:22:18 CDT 2008


http://www.news.com/8301-13772_3-9915667-52.html

Courtesy of nathan Myrhvold, a full-scale working model of Charles 
Babbage's Difference Engine will be on display at the Computer History 
Museum in Mountain View for six months beginning May 1.  The machine was 
constructed to special order for Myhrvold by the Science Museum in 
Kensington, London.


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