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He was born December 26th, 1791 in Teignmouth, Devonshire and died October 18th, 1871, London. He is most famous for his ideas about building an "analytical engine", the predecessor of the digital computer. He was a graduate of Cambridge University, and later held the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics there.

Resources in This Category

• Charles Babbage

  http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Babbage.html
  A biography by J.A.N. Lee. looking at him as a philosopher, politician, Newtonian, and industrialist.

• Charles Babbage

  http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/babbage.html
  Links and references.

• Charles Babbage's First Difference Engine

  http://sites.google.com/site/babbagedifferenceengine/
  Papers on and relating to the world's first programmable automatic digital calculating machine, invented in 1821. Includes images from the Mechanics' Magazine in which it was first published.

• The Analytical Engine

  http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/contents.html
  Includes reprints of historical documents, Java applet emulator and source code, glossary and other resources.

• The Babbage Pages

  http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/babbage/
  Gives an introduction to his life and work, along with details of current research on him.

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