Difference engine

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

4

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

A difference engine is an automatic mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions. It was designed in the 1820s, and was created by Charles Babbage.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Difference engine”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Benjamin Herschel Babbage, printed in Harper's new monthly magazine, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.