Charles Babbage's most famous assistant was Ada Lovelace.
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He designed the first one, except for:It was a gigantic mechanical machineIt was very slow taking several seconds per operationIt was powered directly by a stationary steam engine burning coalIt was never built
Mostly calculating and publishing error free navigation tables. Anyone could publish navigation tables, but there were so many sources of error (miscalculating, writing error, typesetting error, etc.) that most available tables at the time were actually dangerous to rely on.
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