Free School Lane
Cambridge
CB2 3RH
The museum is the depository for one of the five fragments of the calculating part of Difference Engine No. 1, as assembled by H.P. Babbage from the surviving pieces in 1888. The Whipple Museum's model was originally kept at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge, but was transferred to the museum in recent times for safe keeping. This particular model has two figure wheels adding to three.
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Cambridge
CB2 3RH
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| Demonstration Model for Difference Engine |
The museum is the depository for one of the five fragments of the calculating part of Difference Engine No. 1, as assembled by H.P. Babbage from the surviving pieces in 1888. The Whipple Museum's model was originally kept at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge, but was transferred to the museum in recent times for safe keeping. This particular model has two figure wheels adding to three.
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