Difference Engine No. 2 built at the Science Museum
1991 · Event
For Babbage's bicentenary, the Science Museum builds his 1840s Difference Engine No. 2 from the original drawings, to tolerances of his era — and it works, proving his design was sound.
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- Isaac Newton (1643)
- De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543)
- Edison's incandescent light bulb (1879)
- Bell patents the telephone (1876)
- Invention of the transistor (1947)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)
- The Space Race (1957)
- Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction (1831)
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- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Gulf War (1990)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
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- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
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- Pop music: the 2000s (2000)
- Pop music: the 1990s (1990)