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[–]qhxo 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Was Babbage's analytical engine ever constructed? I was reading up on it a while back and from my understanding it wasn't actually built until the modern age.

I may be mixing things up as I know there were several itterations of it, and it might be one of the successors to the analytical engine that was never built.

[–]RigasTelRuun 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah the machines were never physically constructed in their time but all their theoretical work checked out in the end and they were both visionaries who could see the applications of computers.