THE ANALYTICAL ENGINE

Also in the nineteenth century British mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage developed the principles of the modern digital computer. He invented a number of machines, like the difference engine, designed to solve complex mathematical problems. Many historians consider Babbage and his partner, the British mathematician Augusta Ada Byron (1815-1852), daughter of the poet Lord Byron, as the true inventors of the modern digital computer. The technology of the time was not able to move their successful practice concepts, but one of his inventions, the Analytical Engine, and had many of the features of a modern computer. It included a current or inflow package as punch cards, a memory for storing data, a processor for math and a printer for permanent record.