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Charles Babbage's
Difference Engine #2 design of 1832,
as constructed by the
Science Museum,
London, in 1991 for the bicentennary of B's birth.
11/2004: A second copy was under construction for a US museum.
- Millionaire calculator.
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A world war II 3-rotor Enigma machine.
It is an electro-magnetic device not a computer,
but it "inspired" the special-purpose code-breaking
computers at Bletchley Park which decoded the Ultra
intelligence for the allies.
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SSEM c1949
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[computer50.org]
tells the story of the "Baby" stored-program computer,
first run on 21 June 1948,
and of other early Manchester computers.
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U.S. Army Photo, #163-12-62,
left to right:
Patsy Simmers and ENIAC board,
Mrs. Gail Taylor and EDVAC board,
Mrs. Milly Beck and ORDVAC board,
Mrs. Norma Stec and BRLESC 1 board, from
Historic Computer Images by
Mike Muuss.
- recursion.
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