The Analytical Engine was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by

English mathematician Charles Babbage.[2]

It was first described in 1837 as the successor to Babbage's difference engine, a design for a
mechanical computer. The Analytical Engine incorporated an arithmetic logic unit,control
flow in the form of conditional branching and loops, and integrated memory, making it the
first design for a general-purpose computer that could be described in modern terms
as Turing-complete.[3][4]
Babbage was never able to complete construction of any of his machines due to conflicts
with his chief engineer and inadequate funding. [5][6] It was not until the 1940s that the first
general-purpose computers were actually built.