[Nottingham] Campaign builds to construct Babbage Analytical Engine

[Martin]

Folks,

Long before the days of Linus and Linux, there were Babbage and Ada...

Looks like there's growing interest in constructing his mammoth (general
purpose) Analytical Engine:

Campaign builds to construct Babbage Analytical Engine
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11530905


And this Meccano prototype has just got to be seen to be believed!

http://www.meccano.us/analytical_engine/P1010006.MOV
(Quicktime, 40MB, courtesy of Mike Williams)

from:
http://www.meccano.us/analytical_engine/index.html


Extreme steampunk!? A challange for the Nottinghacks?...

:-)

Cheers,
Martin

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