Difference Engine Inventor. A difference engine designed by famous computer pioneer charles babbage in the 19th century is a calculator designed on the mathematic principle of the method of finite differences. Babbage was an english mathematician and inventor.
In 2011 a group of. The difference engine 1990 is an alternative history novel by william gibson and bruce sterling. Difference engine an early calculating machine verging on being the first computer designed and partially built during the 1820s and 30s by charles babbage.
He called this arrangement the engine eating its own tail.
He invented the cowcatcher reformed the british postal system and was a pioneer in the fields of operations research and actuarial science. The difference engine designed in the 1820s by the english mathematician and inventor charles babbage was intended to automatically compute mathematical tables which until that time had been tediously calculated by hand and were prone to error. The first complete babbage engine was completed in london in 2002 153 years after it was designed. The engines charles babbage 1791 1871 computer pioneer designed two classes of engine difference engines and analytical engines.
