200 Years Ago Charles Babbage Proposed His Difference Engine

200 Years Ago Charles Babbage Proposed His Difference Engine

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Two hundred years ago today, on June 14, 1822 Charles Babbage presented a one-page note to the Royal Astronomical Society in London setting out his plans to build a Difference Engine that would use a clockwork mechanism to solve polynomial equations. 

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