Analytical Engine
Analytical Machine
<history> A design for a general-purpose digital computer
proposed by {Charles Babbage} in 1837 as a successor to his
earlier special-purpose {Difference Engine}.
The Analytical Engine was to be built from brass gears powered
by steam with input given on {punched cards}. Babbage could
never secure enough funding to build it, and so it was, and
never has been, constructed.
(http://fourmilab.ch/babbage/).
(1998-10-19)