Babbage’s Difference Engine: Victorian Computer Built at Last #CharlesBabbage #VictorianComputing #MechanicalComputer | TerrifyingMyths

In the 1830s, Charles Babbage proposed an incredible innovation, a mechanical computer promising untold growth for any business or enterprise that could use it. This new technology was a massive opportunity for development, but the sheer scale of the required investment was too great. When government finance was pulled, the project stalled, a brilliant idea ahead of its time with no path to the open market. The intellectual property of this grand design became a valuable inheritance for Henry Ba