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Computers -- History

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The Babbage Engine

In 1821, Charles Babbage set out to create a machine that would mechanize mathematical computations. Over the next two decades, Babbage designed three machines: Difference Engine No. 1 (Babbage completed a section of this machine in 1832), the Analytical Engine (for which Ada Lovelace wrote the first published computer algorithm) and Difference Engine No. 2. Alas, none of these machines came to...

https://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/
The Journey Inside

The Web designers at Intel did a tremendous job when designing The Journey Inside, a Web site on computer and Internet-related technologies. Six sections offer interactive lessons, video demonstrations, and interesting stories about fundamental concepts. The first section provides a general introduction to computers. Next is an informative overview of Circuits and Switches, followed by a...

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/education/k12/the-jo...
The Virtual Museum of Computing

The Virtual Museum of Computing provides an extensive list of websites on the history of computing and on-line computer-based exhibits around the world. Inventors who recently died are highlighted, with links to websites about them and their work. The online galleries include exhibits on mathematics, computing, electronics, corporate histories and general historical information. Links to other...

http://www.museum.ru/mirror/vlmp/computing.html#:~:text=(VMo...
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