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    Computer Assignment: Submitted To: Madam Nida Amjad Submitted By: Sarah Nadeem Date: 2 Feb, 2015

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    Charles Babbage was a British mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer. He was born in 1791 in London and was educated at Cambridge University. In the 1820s, Babbage worked on designs for analytical engines, early mechanical general-purpose computers that used punched cards to store programs and data. While neither of his machines were completed during his lifetime, he is considered a pioneer of computer science for conceiving of the programmable computer. Babbage had a wide range of interests beyond mathematics and worked in fields such as lighthouse signaling, code-breaking, and reforming British science. He died in London in 1871.

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    Charles Babbage was a British mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer. He was born in 1791 in London and was educated at Cambridge University. In the 1820s, Babbage worked on designs for analytical engines, early mechanical general-purpose computers that used punched cards to store programs and data. While neither of his machines were completed during his lifetime, he is considered a pioneer of computer science for conceiving of the programmable computer. Babbage had a wide range of interests beyond mathematics and worked in fields such as lighthouse signaling, code-breaking, and reforming British science. He died in London in 1871.

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    Charles Babbage was a British mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer. He was born in 1791 in London and was educated at Cambridge University. In the 1820s, Babbage worked on designs for analytical engines, early mechanical general-purpose computers that used punched cards to store programs and data. While neither of his machines were completed during his lifetime, he is considered a pioneer of computer science for conceiving of the programmable computer. Babbage had a wide range of interests beyond mathematics and worked in fields such as lighthouse signaling, code-breaking, and reforming British science. He died in London in 1871.

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    Charles Babbage was a British mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer. He was born in 1791 in London and was educated at Cambridge University. In the 1820s, Babbage worked on designs for analytical engines, early mechanical general-purpose computers that used punched cards to store programs and data. While neither of his machines were completed during his lifetime, he is considered a pioneer of computer science for conceiving of the programmable computer. Babbage had a wide range of interests beyond mathematics and worked in fields such as lighthouse signaling, code-breaking, and reforming British science. He died in London in 1871.

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    Submitted to : Madam Nida
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    Submitted by: Sarah Nadeem
    Date : 2 Feb , 2015

    Charles
    Babbage

    Charles Babbage was born on 26 December 1791, probably in


    London, the son of a banker. He was often unwell as a child and
    was educated mainly at home. By the time he went to Cambridge
    University in 1810 he was very interested in mathematics.
    After graduation Babbage was hired by the Royal Institution to
    lecture on calculus. Within two years he had been elected a
    member of the Royal Society and, with his Cambridge friends, was
    instrumental in setting up the Astronomical Society in 1820, the
    first to challenge the dominance of the Royal Society. From 1828
    to 1839, Babbage was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at
    Cambridge.
    The 1820s saw Babbage work on his 'Difference Engine', a
    machine which could perform mathematical calculations. A sixwheeled model was initially constructed and demonstrated to a
    number of audiences. He then developed plans for a bigger,
    better, machine - Difference Engine 2. He also worked on another
    invention, the more complex Analytical Engine, a revolutionary
    device on which his fame as a computer pioneer now largely
    rests. It was intended to be able to perform any arithmetical
    calculation using punched cards that would deliver the
    instructions, as well as a memory unit to store numbers and many
    other fundamental components of today's computers. The
    remarkable British mathematician Ada Lovelace completed a
    program for the Analytical Engine but neither it, nor Difference
    Engine 2, were finished in Babbages lifetime. Science was not an
    established profession, and Babbage, like many of his
    contemporaries, was a 'gentleman scientist' - an independently
    wealthy amateur well able to support his interests from his own
    means. The scope of Babbage's interests was polymathically wide
    even by the generous standards of the day. Between 1813 and
    1868 he published six full-length works and nearly ninety papers.
    He was a prolific inventor, mathematician, scientist, reforming
    critic of the scientific establishment and political economist. He

    pioneered lighthouse signalling, invented the ophthalmoscope,


    proposed 'black box' recorders for monitoring the conditions
    preceding railway catastrophes, advocated decimal currency,
    proposed the use of tidal power once coal reserves were
    exhausted, designed a cow-catcher for the front end of railway
    locomotives, failsafe quick release couplings for railway carriages,
    multi-coloured theatre lighting, an altimeter, a seismic detector, a
    tugboat for winching vessels upstream, a 'hydrofoil' and an
    arcade game for members of the public to challenge in a game of
    tic-tac-toe. His interests included lock picking, ciphers, chess,
    submarine propulsion, armaments, and diving bells. Babbage was
    a prominent figure, regarded as colourfully controversial and even
    eccentric at home in England, yet feted with honours by
    Continental academies. He ached for recognition and was
    aggrieved at its lack grumbling that the Lucasian chair of
    mathematics at Cambridge, was the only honour bestowed on
    him by his countrybage's lifetime.
    Babbage also worked in the fields of philosophy and codebreaking, as well as campaigning for reform in British science. He
    died at his home in London on 18 October 1871.

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