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The Babbage Difference Engine is the ur-computer. This 1860 engraving is an early reproduction of the machine that anticipated the digital age.

Scanned, cleaned and printed by a master printer. Printed with archival ink on 100% cotton-rag artist paper. Edition of 100.

Size: 27″ x 31″.

 

From the book:
Inventors and Discoverers in Science and the Useful ArtsĀ 
John Timbs, Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, 1860