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do you know you can make functioning Difference Engines from the children's construction toy Meccano? http://www.meccano.us/difference_engines/rde_1/
well suppose Charles Babbage never died of "of renal inadequacy, secondary to cystitis" and instead lived to be really really really old (like at least 110 years old) but his mind was still all there and some how in his dotage perhaps though a friends child or something he gets wind Meccano and thinks "hay those could be just the cheap standard parts I needed for my old failed in invention to work" then he and his son buy a howl load of Meccano and a few weeks latter "presto!" cheap mechanical computers invented by 1903, how will it change the world?