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Charles Babbage         
  • ''Account of the repetition of M. Arago's experiments on the magnetism manifested by various substances during the act of rotation'', 1825
  • Part of Charles Babbage's [[Difference Engine]] (#1), assembled after his death by his son, Henry Prevost Babbage (1824–1918), using parts found in Charles' laboratory. [[Whipple Museum of the History of Science]], Cambridge, England.
  • ''Letter to Sir Humphry Davy'', 1822
  • ''On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures'', 1835
  • The Science Museum's Difference Engine No. 2, built from Babbage's design
  • Plate from the ''Ninth Bridgewater Treatise'', showing a parametric family of [[algebraic curve]]s acquiring isolated real points
  • Portion of Babbage's difference engine
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  • Portion of the mill with a printing mechanism of the Analytical Engine, built by Charles Babbage, as displayed at the Science Museum (London)
  • The Science Museum]].
  • Portrait of Charles Babbage (c. 1820)
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  • Babbage c. 1850
  • Babbage's grave at [[Kensal Green Cemetery]], London, photographed in 2014
  • A portion of the [[difference engine]]
  • Part of the Analytical Engine on display, in 1843, left of centre in this engraving of the [[King George III Museum]] in [[King's College, London]]
ENGLISH MATHEMATICIAN, PHILOSOPHER, INVENTOR AND MECHANICAL ENGINEER WHO ORIGINATED THE CONCEPT OF A PROGRAMMABLE COMPUTER (1791-1871)
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Charles Babbage (; 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer.

Babbage is considered by some to be "father of the computer". 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. Babbage had a broad range of interests in addition to his work on computers covered in his book Economy of Manufactures and Machinery. His varied work in other fields has led him to be described as "pre-eminent" among the many polymaths of his century.

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, Charles         
  • ''Account of the repetition of M. Arago's experiments on the magnetism manifested by various substances during the act of rotation'', 1825
  • Part of Charles Babbage's [[Difference Engine]] (#1), assembled after his death by his son, Henry Prevost Babbage (1824–1918), using parts found in Charles' laboratory. [[Whipple Museum of the History of Science]], Cambridge, England.
  • ''Letter to Sir Humphry Davy'', 1822
  • ''On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures'', 1835
  • The Science Museum's Difference Engine No. 2, built from Babbage's design
  • Plate from the ''Ninth Bridgewater Treatise'', showing a parametric family of [[algebraic curve]]s acquiring isolated real points
  • Portion of Babbage's difference engine
  • page=54}}</ref>
  • Portion of the mill with a printing mechanism of the Analytical Engine, built by Charles Babbage, as displayed at the Science Museum (London)
  • The Science Museum]].
  • Portrait of Charles Babbage (c. 1820)
  • thumb
  •  isbn = 978-0-930405-85-4 }}</ref>
  • Babbage c. 1850
  • Babbage's grave at [[Kensal Green Cemetery]], London, photographed in 2014
  • A portion of the [[difference engine]]
  • Part of the Analytical Engine on display, in 1843, left of centre in this engraving of the [[King George III Museum]] in [[King's College, London]]
ENGLISH MATHEMATICIAN, PHILOSOPHER, INVENTOR AND MECHANICAL ENGINEER WHO ORIGINATED THE CONCEPT OF A PROGRAMMABLE COMPUTER (1791-1871)
Charles Babage; Babbage; Babbage, Charles; Charles babbage; Babbage, charles; Babbage Charles; Georgiana Babbage; Passages from the life of a philosopher; Babage; Babbage principle; Babbagian; C. Babbage
Charles Babbage         
  • ''Account of the repetition of M. Arago's experiments on the magnetism manifested by various substances during the act of rotation'', 1825
  • Part of Charles Babbage's [[Difference Engine]] (#1), assembled after his death by his son, Henry Prevost Babbage (1824–1918), using parts found in Charles' laboratory. [[Whipple Museum of the History of Science]], Cambridge, England.
  • ''Letter to Sir Humphry Davy'', 1822
  • ''On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures'', 1835
  • The Science Museum's Difference Engine No. 2, built from Babbage's design
  • Plate from the ''Ninth Bridgewater Treatise'', showing a parametric family of [[algebraic curve]]s acquiring isolated real points
  • Portion of Babbage's difference engine
  • page=54}}</ref>
  • Portion of the mill with a printing mechanism of the Analytical Engine, built by Charles Babbage, as displayed at the Science Museum (London)
  • The Science Museum]].
  • Portrait of Charles Babbage (c. 1820)
  • thumb
  •  isbn = 978-0-930405-85-4 }}</ref>
  • Babbage c. 1850
  • Babbage's grave at [[Kensal Green Cemetery]], London, photographed in 2014
  • A portion of the [[difference engine]]
  • Part of the Analytical Engine on display, in 1843, left of centre in this engraving of the [[King George III Museum]] in [[King's College, London]]
ENGLISH MATHEMATICIAN, PHILOSOPHER, INVENTOR AND MECHANICAL ENGINEER WHO ORIGINATED THE CONCEPT OF A PROGRAMMABLE COMPUTER (1791-1871)
Charles Babage; Babbage; Babbage, Charles; Charles babbage; Babbage, charles; Babbage Charles; Georgiana Babbage; Passages from the life of a philosopher; Babage; Babbage principle; Babbagian; C. Babbage
<person> The british inventor known to some as the "Father of Computing" for his contributions to the basic design of the computer through his Analytical Engine. His previous Difference Engine was a special purpose device intended for the production of mathematical tables. Babbage was born on December 26, 1791 in Teignmouth, Devonshire UK. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1814 and graduated from Peterhouse. In 1817 he received an MA from Cambridge and in 1823 started work on the Difference Engine through funding from the British Government. In 1827 he published a table of logarithms from 1 to 108000. In 1828 he was appointed to the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge (though he never presented a lecture). In 1831 he founded the British Association for the Advancement of Science and in 1832 he published "Economy of Manufactures and Machinery". In 1833 he began work on the Analytical Engine. In 1834 he founded the Statistical Society of London. He died in 1871 in London. Babbage also invented the cowcatcher, the dynamometer, standard railroad gauge, uniform postal rates, occulting lights for lighthouses, Greenwich time signals, and the heliograph opthalmoscope. He also had an interest in cyphers and lock-picking. [Adapted from the text by J. A. N. Lee, Copyright September 1994]. Babbage, as (necessarily) the first person to work with machines that can attack problems at arbitrary levels of abstraction, fell into a trap familiar to toolsmiths since, as described here by the English ethicist, Lord Moulton: "One of the sad memories of my life is a visit to the celebrated mathematician and inventor, Mr Babbage. He was far advanced in age, but his mind was still as vigorous as ever. He took me through his work-rooms. In the first room I saw parts of the original Calculating Machine, which had been shown in an incomplete state many years before and had even been put to some use. I asked him about its present form. 'I have not finished it because in working at it I came on the idea of my Analytical Machine, which would do all that it was capable of doing and much more. Indeed, the idea was so much simpler that it would have taken more work to complete the Calculating Machine than to design and construct the other in its entirety, so I turned my attention to the Analytical Machine.'" "After a few minutes' talk, we went into the next work-room, where he showed and explained to me the working of the elements of the Analytical Machine. I asked if I could see it. 'I have never completed it,' he said, 'because I hit upon an idea of doing the same thing by a different and far more effective method, and this rendered it useless to proceed on the old lines.' Then we went into the third room. There lay scattered bits of mechanism, but I saw no trace of any working machine. Very cautiously I approached the subject, and received the dreaded answer, 'It is not constructed yet, but I am working on it, and it will take less time to construct it altogether than it would have token to complete the Analytical Machine from the stage in which I left it.' I took leave of the old man with a heavy heart." "When he died a few years later, not only had he constructed no machine, but the verdict of a jury of kind and sympathetic scientific men who were deputed to pronounce upon what he had left behind him, either in papers or in mechanism, was that everything was too incomplete of be capable of being put to any useful purpose." [Lord Moulton, "The invention of algorithms, its genesis, and growth", in G. C. Knott, ed., "Napier tercentenary memorial volume" (London, 1915), p. 1-24; quoted in Charles Babbage "Passage from the Life of a Philosopher", Martin Campbell-Kelly, ed. (Rutgers U. Press and IEEE Press, 1994), p. 34]. Compare: uninteresting, Ninety-Ninety Rule. (1996-02-22)
Examples of use of Charles Babbage
1. Talbot‘s notebooks, manuscripts and correspondence with other key scientific figures of the day, such as Isambard Brunel and Charles Babbage, are also in the display.
2. His Wall Street bomb was the culmination of a half-century of anarchist fantasies about avenging angels made of dynamite; but it was also an invention, like Charles Babbages difference engine, far ahead of the imagination of its time.
3. Econ–omists, including Adam Smith and Karl Marx, have commented on the importance of knowledge, and Charles Babbage, the mathematician and economist who is better known as the inventor of the computer in the nineteenth century, argued that better use of knowledge and technology could both make businesses more profitable and raise the standard of living for workers.