Analytical Engine

Photo of an Analytical Engine

In 1837, Charles Babbage invented his successor of his original Difference Engine. The Analytical Engine os generally considered the first computer invented. This invention was a general-purpose, fully program-controlled, automatic, computing maching and is fundamentally a rustic computer. It was able to computer Bernoulli Numbers and store up to 1,000 digits, larger than any other storage capacity of any computer previously built. As Babbage invented this, he was on the path of building something revolutionary, seeing as there is no evidence that anyone else has attempted to build such a device. Once completed, Babbage's invention impacted the whole technology world, proving that something this complex could be successfully built and would later be used as a basis for the modern computer.