The Difference Engine was designed in 1822 and was intended to automatically compute series of values for polynomial functions, to print books of mathematical tables (something which would have been very useful). This was mostly due to their earlier funding of Babbage's Difference Engine. He was unable to get any funding for the project from the government.
Sadly, Babbage never built his Analytical Engine. If it had been built, it would have been the world’s first computer. Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, initially proposed in 1837 (almost 100 years before Turing came up with the Universal Computer), fully meets the standards of Turing's Universal Computer. Turing is regarded as the father of theoretical computer science. It is, however, still the standard against which all computers are measured. This was an imaginary construct and was never built. In 1936 Alan Turing developed the idea of the Universal Computer.
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