What if Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, and Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer and daughter of Lord Byron, had completed Babbage’s difference engine and then teamed up to fight crime.
MoreWhat if Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, and Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer and daughter of Lord Byron, had completed Babbage’s difference engine and then teamed up to fight crime.
MoreIt's only been 173 years since it was first thought up, but it looks like someone's finally going to get around to making Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, the steampowered computer that Babbage could never get the funding to build.
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