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Specified the organization of a programmable general-purpose calculating engine with distinct storage and processing components, punched-card control and conditional or iterative operations.
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The entry is anchored to the surviving 1840 General Plan and associated design archive. The complete Analytical Engine was not constructed in Babbage’s lifetime, so this is a design achievement rather than a working electronic computer.
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- Computer History Museum: The General Plan of the Analytical Engine
- Computer History Museum: The Engines
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Charles Babbage
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Babbage: the General Plan of the Analytical Engine
Specified the organization of a programmable general-purpose calculating engine with distinct storage and processing components, punched-card control and conditional or iterative operations.
Scientific scope
The entry is anchored to the surviving 1840 General Plan and associated design archive. The complete Analytical Engine was not constructed in Babbage’s lifetime, so this is a design achievement rather than a working electronic computer.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Charles Babbage
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.