Charles Babbage, an English mathematician and pioneer proposed the Analytical Engine, a mechanical general-purpose computer. The successor to Babbage’s difference engine was originally described in 1837.
– The Analytical Engine was a general-purpose, completely program-controlled, mechanical digital computer with no human intervention.– The store intended to be large enough to contain 1,000 50-digit numbers.
It seems like a marvel that the world’s first digital computer, which included about every key concept of the current digital computer in its mechanical and logical features, was created in the 1830s.
The mill, the reader, the store, and the printer were all meant to be part of the machine. The machine was to be operated by a single person and was to be steam-powered.