Babbage Machine (Stuff That Memes Are Made Of)

A Babbage Machine refers to two different early computers designed by mathematician and polymath Charles Babbage. The Difference Engine, built for correcting logarithmic tables, was constructed by Joseph Clement from 1822 to 1833. However, it is not a modern computer in the sense it wasn't Boolean Complete. The Analytical Engine, a more general-purpose computer, was first designed in the 1830s, with a prototype built in 1847 with the help of George Scheutz. Unlike the Difference Engine, the Analytical Engine was never fully completed, undergoing several extensive revisions right up to the invention of the first modern computer in 1868. Togehter, the two machines are widely considered the world's first computers.