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Monday, July 7, 2008

Babbage's 1822 Design for a Mechanical Computer Actually Built, for the First Time

In 1822, Charles Babbage designed a computer that was entirely mechanical. He never actually constructed it, but here's a video of someone who did -- the video actually shows him using the computer to find the solution to a polynomial.
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