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This is also cited as the reason the difference engine was not completed.
by telesilla 4y ago
This is also cited as the reason the difference engine was not completed.
- bklaasen 4y agoAlan Bromley and Doron Swade's rebuild of the Difference Engine, done using metals and techniques that were available in Babbage's time, seem to have put paid to that idea. These days it's Babbage's poor project management that's cited as the cause. He had a stormy relationship with his engineer, and couldn't settle on a design long enough for it to be implemented.