Or, to more correct, a modern museum model of it - Babbage was never able to get it made, as the technology of the time wasn't good enough. And the picture is actually 'difference engine 2' - kind of Windows Xp of it's day
This particular picture is from the London Science Museum.
Difference Engine 2 was built at the Science Museum to original designs, for the bicentennial of Babbage’s birth. It is the first of Babbage’s difference engines to be completed. It has seven orders of difference and will calculate to thirty one figures.
Or, to more correct, a modern museum model of it - Babbage was never able to get it made, as the technology of the time wasn't good enough. And the picture is actually 'difference engine 2' - kind of Windows Xp of it's day
This particular picture is from the London Science Museum.