[geeks] Difference Engine at the Computer History Museum

[Brian Dunbar]

Phil Stracchino wrote:
> http://www.news.com/8301-13772_3-9915667-52.html
> 
> Courtesy of nathan Myrhvold, a full-scale working model of Charles
> Babbage's Difference Engine will be on display at the Computer History
> Museum in Mountain View for six months beginning May 1.  The machine was
> constructed to special order for Myhrvold by the Science Museum in
> Kensington, London.
> 
> 

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