Charles Babbage
"At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labor becomes abridged." -Charles Cabbage.
Charles Babbage was born in 1791 and died in 1871. Charles Babbage was a British mathematician, he was often called "The father of computing." He went to Trinity, Cambridge, in 1810 to study mathematics. Navigators relied on error-prone mathematical tables. Charles Babbage decided to fix that. The idea of mechanically calculating mathematical tables first came to Babbage in 1812 or 1813. Later he made a small calculator that could perform mathematical computations. Charles Babbage designed the first automatic computing engines. He invented computers but failed to build them.
From 1821 to 1833, Babbage worked on a Difference Engine to make accurate tables. In 1834, Babbage switched to a more powerful engine, arguably the world’s first programmable computer, a device with separate memory and processing units and punched-card input. He abandoned that in 1848 for a much-improved Difference Engine No. 2.
Charles ideas were great but never built. The first Babbage Engine was completed in London in 2002, 153 years after it was designed.
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