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![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.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/BabbageDifferenceEngine.jpg?width=200 "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.")
![Plate from the ''Ninth Bridgewater Treatise'', showing a parametric family of [[algebraic curve]]s acquiring isolated real points](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Babbage curve singular points.png?width=200 "Plate from the ''Ninth Bridgewater Treatise'', showing a parametric family of [[algebraic curve]]s acquiring isolated real points")
.jpg?width=200 "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]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Babbages Brain.jpg?width=200 "The Science Museum]].")
 School - Charles Babbage (1792–1871) - 814168 - National Trust.jpg?width=200 "Portrait of Charles Babbage (c. 1820)")
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![Babbage's grave at [[Kensal Green Cemetery]], London, photographed in 2014](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles Babbage grave Kensal Green 2014.jpg?width=200 "Babbage's grave at [[Kensal Green Cemetery]], London, photographed in 2014")
![A portion of the [[difference engine]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Difference engine plate 1853.jpg?width=200 "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]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Opening George III museum.jpg?width=200 "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]]")
Wikipedia
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.
