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Here's a rebuild of a part of #CharlesBabbage's #DifferenceEngineNumberTwo, by the team led by #DononSwade at London's #ScienceMuseum. It implements an adder.
Interestingly, the exhibit includes a foot-operated metal lathe from 1910, likely closely modelled on the type of lathe that Babbage commissioned 70 years earlier. It was capable of achieving tolerances of 0.1mm.