150-Year-Old Computer Brought to Life [Slideshow]

A man design a computer a 150 years ago but they never built it and he cold it the Difference Engine No. 2 design by Charles Babbage (1791 to 1871) piece of Victorian technology meant as an big calculator toy for rich people. This computer was long built then any modern computer. Technophiles have a rare chance of seeing one of them only tow exist. They can see it on display in the computer history museum in Mountain View, Calif. Babbage's automatic uses 8,000 bronze iron pieces and steel parts, weighs five tons, and measures eleven feet (3.4 meters) long and seven feet (2.1 meters) high. Doron Swade used the plans of Babbage to bring it to live. Babbage is also crated for the cowcatcher, dynamometer, standard gauge and heliograph ophthalmoscope and some other once but his best is the computer.

What I liked about this project:

That they brought a 150 year old computer back to life and that a lot of people can see what they did 150 years ago whit out the things we have know. What I found good too that they went after the plan of Babbage so it is the real one that was dissent a 150 years ago and we can learn a lot form this computer. Because of that wee can see how some of them fourth 150 years ago.