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Silicon Valley Welcomes Babbage Calculator

Millionaire commissioned huge device based on 19th-Century plans

By Laila Weir,  Newser User

Posted Apr 10, 2008 1:32 PM CDT

(Newser) – An unusually large calculator is on display for the next six months at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. The massive machine is a “difference engine,” a mechanical calculator to determine polynomial functions designed (but never built) by 19th-century inventor Charles...   Read full story »

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