Analytical Engine can't do anything original

The analytical engine could never discover any new facts. It is limited to drawing out consequences of facts that it has bee provided with—i.e. a computer can only do what it has been programmed to do.

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The analytical engine was invented by Charles Babbage circa 1860. It was a mechanical computer composed of gears, cranks and wheels, which could be programmed by punch cards.

In principle, Babbage's computer could carry out any of the calculations a modern electronic computer can, but due to construction and design costs the analytical engine was never built during Babbage's lifetime. Several have been constructed since.

Countess of Lovelace, 1842.

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