[geeks] Difference Engine at the Computer History Museum
    Phil Stracchino 
    alaric at metrocast.net
       
    Thu Apr 10 09:22:18 CDT 2008
    
    
  
http://www.news.com/8301-13772_3-9915667-52.html
Courtesy of nathan Myrhvold, a full-scale working model of Charles 
Babbage's Difference Engine will be on display at the Computer History 
Museum in Mountain View for six months beginning May 1.  The machine was 
constructed to special order for Myhrvold by the Science Museum in 
Kensington, London.
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