Babbages Calculating Machine or Difference Engine (1968)

A rare liveaction and closeup study of the only existing Babbage Difference Engine a machine designed in the first quarter of the 19thCentury by English inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage The engine designed to calculate and printout tables of numbers for use in navigation insurance and astronomy is considered an important artifact in the history of computing Babbage is considered to be the father of the modern computer and the Difference Engine and Analytical Machine are forerunners of the computer The music is Alamaine and The Scots March performed by Carl Dolmetsch and the Dolmetsch Quartet