Editing Charles Babbage (section)

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In 2011, researchers in Britain proposed a multimillion-pound project, "Plan 28",<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://blog.plan28.org/|title=Plan 28 Blog|website=Blog.plan28.org|access-date=10 June 2022}}</ref> to construct Babbage's Analytical Engine.  Since Babbage's plans were continually being refined and were never completed, they intended to engage the public in the project and [[crowdsourcing|crowd-source]] the analysis of what should be built.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/science/computer-experts-building-1830s-babbage-analytical-engine.html | title = It Started Digital Wheels Turning | newspaper=The New York Times | date = 7 November 2011 | access-date =10 November 2011 | last1 = Markoff | first1 = John }}</ref> It would have the equivalent of 675 bytes of memory, and run at a clock speed of about 7&nbsp;Hz.  They hoped to complete it by the 150th anniversary of Babbage's death, in 2021.<ref>{{cite news
 | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15001514
 | title=Babbage Analytical Engine designs to be digitised
 | work=BBC News
 | date=21 September 2011
| access-date=19 March 2012 }}
</ref>

Advances in [[microelectromechanical system|MEMS]] and [[nanotechnology]] have led to recent high-tech experiments in mechanical computation. The benefits suggested include operation in high radiation or high temperature environments.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0WVI/is_1999_Oct_11/ai_56912203/print |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013201309/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0WVI/is_1999_Oct_11/ai_56912203/print |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 October 2007 |title=Electronics Times: Micro-machines are fit for space |via=Find Articles |date=11 October 1999 |access-date=29 January 2009 }}</ref> These modern versions of mechanical computation were highlighted in ''[[The Economist]]'' in its special "end of the millennium" black cover issue in an article entitled "Babbage's Last Laugh".<ref>{{cite news |title=Babbage's Last Laugh |newspaper=The Economist |date=9 September 1999 |url=http://www.economist.com/node/324654?story_id=E1_PNQGVQ}}</ref>

Due to his association with the town Babbage was chosen in 2007 to appear on the 5 [[Totnes pound]] note.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Meet-new-faces-local-currency/story-21152600-detail/story.html|title=Latest Devon News |website=Devon Live|access-date=5 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810153519/http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Meet-new-faces-local-currency/story-21152600-detail/story.html|archive-date=10 August 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> An image of Babbage features in the [[British culture|British cultural icons]] section of the newly designed [[British passport]] in 2015.<ref>{{cite news|title=Introducing the new UK passport design|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/.../HMPO_magazine.pdf|publisher=Government of the United Kingdom|date=7 November 2016}}</ref>