The Analytical engine was designed by Charles Babbage in 1837. It was the first mechanical general purpose computer. The logical structure of the Analytical engine was essentially the same as computer design today.

Analytical Engine, generally considered the first computer, designed and partly built by the English inventor Charles Babbage in the 19th century (he worked on it until his death in 1871). While working on the Difference Engine, a simpler calculating machine commissioned by the British government, Babbage began to imagine ways to improve it. Chiefly he thought about …

05/02/2022 · For the rest of his life, Charles Babbage kept working on his Analytic Engine. His problem was a lack of funding and expertise with machining parts….and the fact that he still was more interested in the theoretical than the practical. He did eventually build a small part of the Analytical Engine, but that was all he ever managed.