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"Oh no! we never mention it, / Its name is never heard. "
Difference Engine No. 1 -- First Idea at Cambridge, 1812 -- Plan for Dividing Astronomical Instruments -- Idea of a Machine to calculate Tables by Differences -- Illustrations by Piles of Cannonballs.