Antonio Allen Jan. 30 2008 Lab 1.4 1.1956, 305 RAMAC, 5 MB 2.Charles Babbage born on December 26, 1791. 3.The Analytical Engine was a mechanical digital computer created by Charles Babbage. 4.The Analytical Engine was designed to be steam powered. 5.Ada Lovelace was known for having the written description of the Analytical Engine. 6.The famous poet Lord Byron is Ada's father. 7.Her program would have been able to sequence a set of Bernoulli's numbers. Allowing for her to be known as the first computer programmer. 8.The ENIAC weighed 27215.542 kg. 9.ENIAC was designed and built to calculate artillery firing tables for the U.S. Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory. 10.Feb. 14, 1946 marked the completion of the ENIAC. 11. The Colossus, was a computer built before the ENIAC which was used to decipher German code during WWII. This piece of machinery was introduced by Alan Turing a British mathematician.