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Why the world’s FIRST computer was never finished

Engineers developed the first modern computers during World War II to crack secret codes and compute artillery ranges. But almost 100 years earlier, a brilliant scientist was developing a mechanical computer that could do many of the same things. Today’s tech might’ve been very different, had he completed it. So why didn’t he finish?

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