1. BBC - History - Charles Babbage (1791 - 1871) Babbage was a British mathematician, an original and innovative thinker and a pioneer of computing. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/babbage_charles.shtml

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Charles Babbage December 26, 1791 Teignmouth, Devonshire, UK October 18, 1871, London, UK Charles Babbage principal papers see main text hardware difference machine software keyords difference engine analytical engine see also related subjects Ada Lovelace, Difference Engine, Analytical engine, Science Museum London Achievement Charles Babbage designs the Difference Engine but the machine will never be realized. He also start plans for the Analytical engine. But it will be his son that realizes the project in part. Biography Charles Babbage was born in London on December 26, 1792 , the son of Benjamin Babbage, a London banker. As a youth Babbage was his own instructor in algebra, of which he was passionately fond, and was well-read in the continental mathematics of his day. Upon entering Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1811, he found himself far in advance of his tutors in mathematics. With Herschel, Peacock, and others, Babbage founded the Analytical Society for promoting continental mathematics and, reforming the mathematics of Newton, then taught at the university.

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PC World Forums PDA View Full Version : first ever computer newb. 25-10-2006, 11:46 AM am i correct in saying that the first ever computer was built by IBM and its purpose was to break the enigma? i just need to clarify this. thanks. 25-10-2006, 11:55 AM Nope, not even warm. (Although IBM's first computer WAS made by IBM . . .):thumbs: newb. 25-10-2006, 11:59 AM so, who built the very first computer then? Pete O'Neil 25-10-2006, 12:00 PM Depends what you define a computer as? newb. 25-10-2006, 12:06 PM the personal computer. or anything really that uses a computer; computer being something that processes and stores information. Greg 25-10-2006, 12:21 PM Depends what you define a computer as?That's the moot point. There were many 'computing' devices long before electronics came into it. The furthest back I know about is mechanical computers used in WW2 submarines for calculating angles for firing torpedoes. But I'm pretty certain computing machines were made long before then. Chris Randal 25-10-2006, 12:24 PM This gentleman here http://www.thocp.net/biographies/babbage_charles.html is widely regarded as having built the first computer.

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Biography Base Home Link To Us Search Biographies: Browse Biographies A B C D ... Z Charles Babbage Biography Charles Babbage (December 26, 1791 – October 18, 1871) was an English mathematician, analytical philosopher and (proto-)computer scientist who was the first person to come up with the idea of a programmable computer. Parts of his uncompleted mechanisms are on display in the London Science Museum. In 1991, working from Babbage's original plans, a Difference Engine was completed, and functioned perfectly. They were built to tolerances achievable in the 19th century, indicating that Babbage's machine would have worked. Early Years Born in London, he was an alumnus of Trinity College, Cambridge and of Peterhouse, Cambridge. He graduated from Cambridge in 1814. In that same year, he married Georgiana Whitmore. They had eight children, but only three lived to adulthood. Mrs Babbage died in 1827. Design of Computers In recognition of the high error rate in the calculation of mathematical tables, Babbage sought to find a method by which they could be calculated by machine, which would not suffer the errors, fatigue and boredom of human calculators. This idea had come to him as early as 1812. Three different factors seem to have influenced him: a dislike of untidiness, his awareness of logarithmic tables, and work on calculating machines carried out by Wilhelm Schickard, Blaise Pascal and Gottfried Leibniz. In 1822, in a letter to Sir Humphrey Davy on the application of machinery to the calculation and printing of mathematical tables, he discussed the principles of a calculating engine.

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Babbage, Charles English mathematician, who lived from 1792 to 1871, and inventor, famous for his attempts to develop a mechanical computational aid he called the analytical engine . Although it was never constructed and was decimal rather than binary (see Numeration ) in conception, it clearly anticipated the modern digital Computer . A scientist with extremely broad interests, Babbage probed the roles of learned societies and government in advancing science, and wrote on mass production and on what is now called operational research.

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Charles Babbage The Charles Babbage connection Charles Babbage (1791-1871) was a prolific English scientist with a huge range of interests. Many biographies are available and two are provided as links below. Twice he worked on calculating machines. By 1822 he had completed a design for his Difference Engine - a powerful automatic mechanical calculator with its own formatting printer. By 1870 he had a reasonably consistant set of plans for his very complex Analytical Engine - an automatic, programmable calculator. This would have been easy to distinguish from a modern computer by the steam engine required to run it. Even in a mechanical embodiment the programming concepts were right up to today. He never completed his "Engines", but he did show that a programmable calculating device was conceivable. Virtually all the early computer builders knew of, and referred to his work. His descendants moved to Australia and NZ, with a demonstration unit of the Difference Engine, which the Powerhouse museum purchased. Photo by Max Burnet Allan Bromley Professor Bromley was the world authority on Babbage's engines and he was involved in this purchase as well as being advisor to the British Science Museum on the first completed construction of the Difference Engine in 1991. He retired from the University of Sydney in 2001 and he was a president of the ACMS.

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