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    Babbage" redirects here. For other uses, see Babbage (disambiguation).

    Charles Babbage

    KH FRS

    Babbage in 1860

    Born 26 December 1791

    London, England

    Died 18 October 1871 (aged 79)

    Marylebone, London, England

    Alma mater Peterhouse, Cambridge

    Known for Analytical engine

    Difference engine

    Georgiana Whitmore
    Spouse

    (m. 1814; died 1827)

    Children 8, including Benjamin Herschel Babbage


    Relatives William Wolryche-Whitmore (brother-in-law)

    Awards Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical

    Society (1824)

    Scientific career

    Fields Mathematics, engineering, political economy,

    computer science

    Institutions Trinity College, Cambridge, Peterhouse,

    Cambridge

    Signature

    Charles Babbage KH FRS (/ˈbæbɪdʒ/; 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an


    English polymath.[1] A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage
    originated the concept of a digital programmable computer.[2]
    Babbage is considered by some to be "father of the computer".[2][3][4][5] Babbage is credited with
    inventing the first mechanical computer, the Difference Engine, that eventually led to more
    complex electronic designs, though all the essential ideas of modern computers are to be found
    in Babbage's Analytical Engine, programmed using a principle openly borrowed from
    the Jacquard loom.[2][6] Babbage had a broad range of interests in addition to his work on
    computers covered in his 1832 book Economy of Manufactures and Machinery.[7] His varied work
    in other fields has led him to be described as "pre-eminent" among the many polymaths of his
    century.[1]
    Babbage, who died before the complete successful engineering of many of his designs, including
    his Difference Engine and Analytical Engine, remained a prominent figure in the ideating of
    computing. Parts of Babbage's incomplete mechanisms are on display in the Science Museum in
    London. In 1991, a functioning difference engine was constructed from Babbage's original plans.
    Built to tolerances achievable in the 19th century, the success of the finished engine indicated
    that Babbage's machine would have worked.
    Babbage" redirects here. For other uses, see Babbage (disambiguation).

    Charles Babbage

    KH FRS
    Babbage in 1860

    Born 26 December 1791

    London, England

    Died 18 October 1871 (aged 79)

    Marylebone, London, England

    Alma mater Peterhouse, Cambridge

    Known for Analytical engine


    Difference engine

    Georgiana Whitmore
    Spouse

    (m. 1814; died 1827)

    Children 8, including Benjamin Herschel Babbage

    Relatives William Wolryche-Whitmore (brother-in-law)

    Awards Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical

    Society (1824)

    Scientific career
    Fields Mathematics, engineering, political economy,

    computer science

    Institutions Trinity College, Cambridge, Peterhouse,

    Cambridge

    Signature

    Charles Babbage KH FRS (/ˈbæbɪdʒ/; 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an


    English polymath.[1] A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage
    originated the concept of a digital programmable computer.[2]
    Babbage is considered by some to be "father of the computer".[2][3][4][5] Babbage is credited with
    inventing the first mechanical computer, the Difference Engine, that eventually led to more
    complex electronic designs, though all the essential ideas of modern computers are to be found
    in Babbage's Analytical Engine, programmed using a principle openly borrowed from
    the Jacquard loom.[2][6] Babbage had a broad range of interests in addition to his work on
    computers covered in his 1832 book Economy of Manufactures and Machinery.[7] His varied work
    in other fields has led him to be described as "pre-eminent" among the many polymaths of his
    century.[1]
    Babbage, who died before the complete successful engineering of many of his designs, including
    his Difference Engine and Analytical Engine, remained a prominent figure in the ideating of
    computing. Parts of Babbage's incomplete mechanisms are on display in the Science Museum in
    London. In 1991, a functioning difference engine was constructed from Babbage's original plans.
    Built to tolerances achievable in the 19th century, the success of the finished engine indicated
    that Babbage's machine would have worked.
    Babbage" redirects here. For other uses, see Babbage (disambiguation).

    Charles Babbage

    KH FRS
    Babbage in 1860

    Born 26 December 1791

    London, England

    Died 18 October 1871 (aged 79)

    Marylebone, London, England

    Alma mater Peterhouse, Cambridge

    Known for Analytical engine


    Difference engine

    Georgiana Whitmore
    Spouse

    (m. 1814; died 1827)

    Children 8, including Benjamin Herschel Babbage

    Relatives William Wolryche-Whitmore (brother-in-law)

    Awards Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical

    Society (1824)

    Scientific career
    Fields Mathematics, engineering, political economy,

    computer science

    Institutions Trinity College, Cambridge, Peterhouse,

    Cambridge

    Signature

    Charles Babbage KH FRS (/ˈbæbɪdʒ/; 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an


    English polymath.[1] A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage
    originated the concept of a digital programmable computer.[2]
    Babbage is considered by some to be "father of the computer".[2][3][4][5] Babbage is credited with
    inventing the first mechanical computer, the Difference Engine, that eventually led to more
    complex electronic designs, though all the essential ideas of modern computers are to be found
    in Babbage's Analytical Engine, programmed using a principle openly borrowed from
    the Jacquard loom.[2][6] Babbage had a broad range of interests in addition to his work on
    computers covered in his 1832 book Economy of Manufactures and Machinery.[7] His varied work
    in other fields has led him to be described as "pre-eminent" among the many polymaths of his
    century.[1]
    Babbage, who died before the complete successful engineering of many of his designs, including
    his Difference Engine and Analytical Engine, remained a prominent figure in the ideating of
    computing. Parts of Babbage's incomplete mechanisms are on display in the Science Museum in
    London. In 1991, a functioning difference engine was constructed from Babbage's original plans.
    Built to tolerances achievable in the 19th century, the success of the finished engine indicated
    that Babbage's machine would have worked.

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