Charles Babbage Analytical Engine History 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 ...

Ada Lovelace, daughter of poet Lord Byron and mathematician Annabella Milbanke, became the world's first programmer in 1843 with her algorithm for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine.

The Difference Engine This impression from a woodcut was printed in 1853 showing a portion of the Difference Engine that was built in 1833. Babbage later turned his attention to the Analytical Engine.

The Analytical Engine comprised an arithmetic logic unit, conditional branching and loops via control flow, and integrated memory, which is essentially the same logical structure of today's computers.