[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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