Inside the first MODERN COMPUTER
DID YOU KNOW? The British government spent £17,500 on the Difference Engine No. 1, equivalent to around £1.5 million today
he history of the modern-day computer is a 200-year journey of technological evolution contributed to by countless inventors and scientists from across the world. One of the pioneering minds on the computer’s timeline was Charles Babbage, an English mathematician that designed several machines to automatically complete complex calculations. In the early 1800s, Babbage was tasked by the British Admiralty with producing an accurate table of logarithms – printed tables used to perform bigger calculations commonly used in navigation – as
