Question

Who Is The Inventor of the difference engine?

Answer 1

Difference engine

1. A difference engine was designed to tabulate polynomial functions.
2. This was an automatic mechanical calculator used to calculate a series of values and print results automatically in table form.
3. A difference engine, first created by Charles Babbage by working for two years on the idea of mechanical calculations.
4. The principle of machine was the method of finite differences, a way to tabulate functions by using a small set of polynomial coefficients.
5. The engine was 'programmed' with a function and cranked by hand to deliver the result.

Charles Babbage was the inventor of difference engine. He designed to tabulate polynomial function by finite difference method.