Difference Engine No 1. The difference engine aimed to mechanise the process of calculation. The 1830 design shows a machine calculating with sixteen digits and six orders of difference.
Revolutionary ideas economic and technological revolution medicine science and the people. The difference engine consists of a number of columns numbered from 1 to n the machine is able to store one decimal number in each column. The engine called for some 25 000 parts shared equally between the calculating section and the printer.
Babbage an english mathematician hoped to compute and to print astronomical tables by machine.
Babbage learned much from designing the analytical engine and in 1847 began work on his difference engine no. 2 which could calculate much larger polynomials than the original engine and would require only one third of the number of parts. 1 started by babbage in 1821 is the first complete design for an automatic calculating engine or a calculator. Revolutionary ideas economic and technological revolution medicine science and the people.
