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Charles Babbage was one of the first computing pioneers and his machine, the Difference Engine Number Two, is on display at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Babbage drew up plans for this apparatus in the mid-1800s but he ran out of money and never got the chance to see the machine completed.

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