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DevinNever and it is highly unlikely one will ever be made.
Its inventor, Charles Babbage, never completed the plans and was unable to convince anyone to fund its construction (largely because he had frustrated those funding the construction of his earlier difference engine by not completing it when promised then effectively doing what they considered a "bait and switch" when he decided to stop work on the difference engine and offer them what he claimed to be the "better" analytical engine instead).
There is no serious reason to consider building an analytical engine now as it would be painfully slow, be far larger than the largest vacuum tube computer ever built, require dozens of mechanics and machinists to maintain it and keep it running, etc. compared to modern highspeed electronic microprocessor based computers. Also much of the analytical engine would have to be designed from scratch as Babbage's drawings do not cover the complete machine.
Two copies of Babbage's Difference Engine #2 were built in 1991 and 2008 by the London Museum of Science. This machine was much simpler and used fewer parts than Babbage's original Difference Engine #1 (using ideas and designs derived from his work designing the analytical engine) and had an apparently complete set of plans, making it ideal to research the question of if these machines could actually be built and function reliably using the tolerances that machinists in the 1830s were able to do. They succeeded in building both machines and found that they worked very reliably, however it also showed that the machines do not survive transportation well (but this would not have been a problem in the 1800s as they would have been constructed onsite and never moved), also a "minor" change made to make it easier to crank the machine by hand (one that Babbage would not have made himself as he probably designed it that way to limit the torque in the machine) permitted the machine to be overtorqued and breaking several carry arms accidentally.
The british mathematician Charles Babbage invented the Analytical Engine (a fully programmable mechanical digital computer powered by a steam engine) in the middle 1830s, while working on building his earlier Difference Engine (a machine for solving systems of Difference Equations powered by a steam engine) project using funds from the British Government. Between problems he had encountered on the Difference Engine and his sudden redirecting of attention to the Analytical Engine (ultimately leading to suggestions that work on the incomplete Difference Engine be abandoned and the Analytical Engine built instead) Parliament withdrew all funding to Babbage. As a result neither machine got built.
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Named the computers invented by Charles Cabbage?
The computers invented by Charles Babbage were the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine. Neither was finished in his lifetime but gave him fame as a computer pioneer.
What did Charles Babbage invent and in what year?
Charles Babbage invented the concept of a programmable mechanical computer known as the Analytical Engine. He conceived this invention in the early 1830s. Although Babbage was unable to complete the construction of the Analytical Engine during his lifetime, his work laid the foundation for the development of modern computers.
In 1830 the first design of an antylitical engine for the computer was invented by who?
Charles Babbage. there are other questions on this English mathematician and computer inventor. it was called an analytical engine, not how you spelled it
What is an analytical engine?
An analytical engine is a mechanical general-purpose computer which was designed and envisaged by Charles Babbage, but never built.
How could Charles Baggage invent the electronic computer if he was born in 1791 and it was invented in 1641?
The electronic computer was not invented in 1641, there was no electronics in 1641. The electronic computer was invented in the 1940s. Charles Babbage did invent the programmable digital computer, the Analytical Engine, but it was mechanical not electronic.
