1. Charles Babbage The Babbage Pages give an introduction to Charles Babbage`s life and work, and current research on Babbage. Welcome to The Babbage Pages. Babbage, Charles (17911871). Reformer militant, mathematician, computer pioneer, http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Babbage.html

Charles Babbage Born December 26, 1791 in Teignmouth, Devonshire UK, Died 1871, London; Known to some as the "Father of Computing" for his contributions to the basic design of the computer through his Analytical machine. His previous Difference Engine was a special purpose device intended for the production of tables. While he did produce prototypes of portions of the Difference Engine, it was left to Georg and Edvard Schuetz to construct the first working devices to the same design which were successful in limited applications. Significant Events in His Life: 1791: Born; 1810: Entered Trinity College, Cambridge; 1814: graduated Peterhouse; 1817 received MA from Cambridge; 1820: founded the Analytical Society with Herschel and Peacock; 1823: started work on the Difference Engine through funding from the British Government; 1827: published a table of logarithms from 1 to 108000; 1828: appointed to the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge (never presented a lecture); 1831: founded the British Association for the Advancement of Science; 1832: published "Economy of Manufactures and Machinery"; 1833: began work on the Analytical Engine; 1834: founded the Statistical Society of London; 1864: published Passages from the Life of a Philosopher; 1871: Died. Other inventions: The cowcatcher, dynamometer, standard railroad gauge, uniform postal rates, occulting lights for lighthouses, Greenwich time signals, heliograph opthalmoscope. He also had an interest in cyphers and lock-picking, but abhorred street musicians.

2. Charles Babbage (1791-1871) Includes a photograph of Babbage, and his analytical engine, along with links. http://vmoc.museophile.sbu.ac.uk/babbage/

Charles Babbage (1791-1871) (Photograph of Charles Babbage in 1847.) The Babbage Difference Engine Links to other information Bibliography Recommended: The Cogwheel Brain by Doron Swade (2001). The Babbage Difference Engine No. 1 The Difference Engine designed by Charles Babbage in the Science Museum London Early programming! Jane and Jonathan Bowen using the Babbage Difference Engine in the Computing Then and Now gallery Science Museum London Links to other information Charles Babbage Institute , Center for the History of Information Processing, University of Minnesota. See brief biography of Charles Babbage. Babbage's Calculating Engines (1832-71) at the Science Museum , London. See picture Babbage's Calculating Engines 1832-71 exhibit from the Computing Then and Now gallery page in the Treasures of the Science Museum on-line exhibition. Charles Babbage brief biography by J.A.N. Lee. Charles Babbage , holder of the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge . See also bibliography Charles Babbage (1791-1871) links in the History of Mathematics Home Page Charles Babbage entry in the SJSU Virtual Museum , San Jose State University, California, on the history of science, mathematics and technology, feauturing individual scientists and mathematicians.

3. Babbage, Charles (1791-1871) -- From Eric Weisstein's World Of Scientific Biogra Babbage, Charles (17911871), This entry contributed by MargheritaBarile. English mathematician and inventor. Babbage was obsessed http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Babbage.html

Branch of Science Engineers Branch of Science Mathematicians ... Barile Babbage, Charles (1791-1871) This entry contributed by Margherita Barile English mathematician and inventor. Babbage was obsessed from his boyhood with the idea of an universal language, and he conceived his first mechanical calculator around 1812 while he was a student at the Trinity College in Cambridge, England. At that time, he was involved in research on differential and integral calculus as a co-founder of the new Analytical Society. Later, he would become Lucasian professor (1828) and contribute to establishing the Royal Astronomical Society (1820) and the London Statistical Society (1834). The project of Babbage's Difference Engine No. 1 was completed in 1822. Two improved versions followed in the next years, but were never realized. These devices, based on a system of toothed gears, could automatically compute arithmetical sequences of high order involving numbers having up to 5 digits. Babbage's (unachieved) masterpiece was the Analytical Engine, a much more sophisticated invention, which worked using punched cards, could perform any arithmetical operation, and was even able to print out the results. One of the main outcomes of Babbage's research was the conclusion that every game of skill could be played by a properly instructed automaton.

4. Babbage, Charles (1791-1871) Babbage, Charles. mathematician. england. Babbage. Images. Charles Babbage'sgrave at Kensal Green Cemetery, Londen. Picture by Androom (11 Dec 1993). http://www.xs4all.nl/~androom/biography/p000840.htm

Babbage, Charles mathematician england 26 Dec 1791, Teignmouth, Devonshire - 18 Oct 1871, London Grave location: London: Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green Born in Devonshire as the son of the banker Benjamin Babbage. As a child he suffered ill health. The young Babbage clearly had a passion for mathematics and a disdlike for the classics. He was educated by private tutors and then at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he received his M.A. in 1817. In 1830 he designed an analytical engine (on paper), which operated in a way similar to computers. Another of his designs was a difference engine, meant to produce tables. In 1827 he produced a table of logarithms from 1 to 108000; Babbage wanted to quantify everything. 1827 had been a year full of disaster. His father, his wife and two of his children died and he went abroad for his own health. Back in England he obtained the Lucasian Chair at Cambridge in 1828, but he never presented a single lecture. Babbage was one of the founders of the Astronomical Society (1820) as well as the Statistical Society (1834). In 1834 work on the Difference Engine came to an end. The government granted no more money and Babbage had already invested a huge sum of his own. In 1840 he visited Turin, where he discussed his work with mathematicians like Menabrea. Lady Ada Augusta Lovelace - Lord Byron's daughter - translated Menabrea's description of the analytical engine and extended it significantly by herself. She assisted Babbage on some of his projects and he was very fond of her.

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6. The Babbage Pages: Homepage Welcome to The Babbage Pages Babbage, Charles (17911871) Reformer Militant mathematician, computer pioneer, economist, mechanical engineer, code-breaker, inventor, society figure, etc. etc. http://www.ex.ac.uk/~rburnley/babbage

Welcome to The Babbage Pages Babbage, Charles (1791-1871) Reformer Militant: mathematician, computer pioneer, economist, mechanical engineer, code-breaker, inventor, society figure, etc. etc. Biography Family Devonshire Background Friends ... Babbage at the Science Museum These pages give an introduction to Babbage`s life and work, and current research on Babbage. It is intended that they should be gradually expanded as work proceeds. of R.D.Burnley@ex.ac.uk Jul 05, 1996 URL: http://www.ex.ac.uk/~rburnley/babbage/welcome.html

7. The Babbage Pages: Homepage Babbage, Charles (17911871) Reformer militant, mathematician, computer pioneer,economist, mechanical engineer, code-breaker, inventor, society figure, etc. http://www.ex.ac.uk/BABBAGE/

Welcome to The Babbage Pages Babbage, Charles (1791-1871) Reformer militant, mathematician, computer pioneer, economist, mechanical engineer, code-breaker, inventor, society figure, etc. etc. These pages give an introduction to Babbage`s life and work, and current research on Babbage. Biography Family Devonshire Background Friends ... University of Exeter homesite for The Babbage Pages Department of Computer Science home department It is intended that they should be gradually expanded as work proceeds. Please contact Anthony Hyman R.A.Hyman@ex.ac.uk , with any comment, additional material, etc.. of Ray Burnley R.A.Hyman@ex.ac.uk January 08, 1997 URL: http://www.ex.ac.uk/BABBAGE/welcome.html

8. The Babbage Pages: Biography The Babbage Pages Biography. Charles Babbage (17911871). Charles Babbagewas one of the key figures of a great era of British history. http://www.ex.ac.uk/BABBAGE/biograph.html

Biography Charles Babbage (1791-1871) Although born in London, Babbage came from an old Totnes family, and retained close links with the region all his life. The West Country, with its mining and engineering was particularly important in the early stages of the industrial revolution, and from the extraordinarily wealthy Totnes region, with its port at Dartmouth, came also Newcomen and Savery, pioneers of the steam engine. Babbage went up to Cambridge in 1810 and with some friends effected the crucial introduction of the Leibnitz notation for the calculus, which transformed mathematics in Cambridge and thus throughout Britain. In 1814 Babbage married Georgiana Whitmore, from a landowning Shropshire family. Her half brother, Wolryche Whitmore, was the M.P. who rose year after year in the House of Commons to move the repeal of the Corn Laws. He was also a leading member of the Political Economy Club, and played an important part in Babbage's life. Babbage's greatest achievement was his detailed plans for Calculating Engines, both the table-making Difference Engines and the far more ambitious Analytical Engines, which were flexible and powerful, punched-card controlled general purpose calculaters, embodying many features which later reappeared in the modern stored program computer. These features included: punched card control; separate store and mill; a set of internal registers (the table axes); fast multiplier/divider; a range of peripherals; even array processing.

9. References For Babbage MJ DurandRichard, Charles Babbage (1791-1871) de l'école algébrique anglaiseà la 'machine analytique', Math. Inform. Sci. Humaines 118 (1992), 5-31. http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/References/Babbage.html

References for Charles Babbage Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. Books: C Babbage, Passages from the life of a philosopher (London, 1864). H P Babbage, Babbage's calculating emgines (London, 1889). H W Buxton, Memoir of the life and labours of the late Charles Babbage Esq. F.R.S. (Los Angeles, CA, 1988). J M Dubbey, The mathematical work of Charles Babbage (Cambridge, 1978). A Hyman, Charles Babbage : pioneer of the computer (Oxford, 1982). P Morrison and E Morrison, Charles Babbage and his calculating engines (New York, 1961). Articles: W J Ashworth, Memory, efficiency, and symbolic analysis : Charles Babbage, John Herschel, and the industrial mind, Isis W J Ashworth, The calculating eye : Baily, Herschel, Babbage and the business of astronomy, British J. Hist. Sci. Babbage, Charles (1792-1871), Dictionary of National Biography II (London, 1885), 304-306. H W Becher, Woodhouse, Babbage, Peacock, and modern algebra, Historia Math.

10. PROJECT GUTENBERG - Catalog By Author - Index - Babbage, Charles INDEX What is PG Etext Listings. Etexts by Author Babbage, Charles, 17911871 B Index Main Index Reflections on the Decline of Science in England. http://www.informika.ru/text/books/gutenb/gutind/TEMP/i-_babbage_charles_.html

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12. Charles Babbage (1791-1871) Charles Babbage (17911871). John van Wyhe, Fellow, National University of Singapore;Researcher, History philosophy of science, Cambridge University. http://65.107.211.206/science/babbage.html

Charles Babbage (1791-1871) John van Wyhe Charles Babbage was an astonishingly original and innovative thinker in Victorian Britain. Many innovations and important contributions are attributed to him including his idea for machines to perform mathematical calculations (his Calculating Engines) and the far more ambitious Analytical Engines which were flexible punch-card controlled general calculaters, he produced a Table of logarithms of the natural numbers from 1 to 108000 which was a standard reference from 1827 through the end of the century. Babbage pioneered many other technical innovations as well as developing mathematical code breaking. Babbage's Analytical Engine designs are particularly impressive today as they contained many similar elements to modern digital computers. For example, Babbage's engines 'punched card control; separate store and mill; a set of internal registers (the table axes); fast multiplier/divider; a range of peripherals; even array processing' (Hyman). The Science Museum assembled Babbage's Calculating Engine number 2 according to his original designs in 1991. To witness the whirl and thudding stamp of this machine is a thrilling experience.

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Beats Biblionetz: Bücher Home Themen Personen Texte ... Changes lokal Alle Meistvernetzte Meistgesuchte Physisch Neue ... Z Charles Babbage 1791-1871 Philosoph, Mathematiker, Computerpionier Anthony Hyman In diesem Buch geht es um... Personen Charles Babbage Begriffe Computer Bücher Passagen aus einem Philophenleben (Charles Babbage) Externe Links URL: Titel: Beschreibung: Kommentare von BesucherInnen dieser Seite Einen Kommentar hinzufügen... Ihre Meinung dazu? Bibliographisches Titel Bez. Verlag Auflage Jahr ISBN Charles Babbage 1791-1871 D Gebunden Klett-Cotta Charles Babbage E Gebunden Oxford University Press Erstpublikation: 1982 Bin am Lesen seit: Webtechnisches Dies ist eine Seite aus Beats Biblionetz ( http://beat.doebe.li/bibliothek/ Die offizielle und stabile Adresse lautet http://beat.doebe.li/bibliothek/b01165.html Erster Eintrag : 28.10.2002 Letzter Eintrag: 28.10.2002 HTML-File: 12.03.2003 Besucher(02/03): 00050 (ohne Suchmaschinen und ohne Proxy-Verluste) Besucher Total : 00200 (ohne Suchmaschinen und ohne Proxy-Verluste) (c) beat.doebe.li

14. Babbage, Charles - Bright Sparcs Archival And Heritage Sources Babbage, Charles (1791 1871). Biographical entry. Title Babbage, Charles (1791-1871).Reference 96/203/2, 97/186/1 and 97/229/1. Date Range 1826 - 1991. http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/archives/P004109a.htm

Bright Sparcs Archival and Heritage Sources Home Browse Search Previous ... Next Babbage, Charles (1791 - 1871) Biographical entry Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences [Repository details] Title: Babbage, Charles (1791-1871) Reference: 96/203/2, 97/186/1 and 97/229/1 Date Range: Description: Papers of Charles Babbage and other family members, including correspondence, publications, photo album, scrapbook and miscellaneous papers. The Museum also holds a specimen piece of Babbage's Difference Engine No. 1. Access: Available for reference Top of Page Published by Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre on ASAPWeb Originally published by Australian Science Archives Project. Submit any comments, questions, corrections and additions Prepared by: Acknowledgements Updated: 3 March 2003 http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/archives/P004109a.htm Top of page Bright Sparcs Home Browse Search

15. Charles Babbage (1791-1871) Charles Babbage. 1 Near the northern pole of the moon there is a crater named forCharles Babbage. When he died in 1871, however, few people knew who he was. http://www.transy.edu/homepages/miller/home/babbaget.htm

Charles Babbage Born December 26, 1791 in Teignmouth, Devonshire UK, Died 1871, London; Known to some as the "Father of Computing" for his contributions to the basic design of the computer through his Analytical machine. His previous Difference Engine was a special purpose device intended for the production of tables. While he did produce prototypes of portions of the Difference Engine, it was left to Georg and Edvard Schuetz to construct the first working devices to the same design which were successful in limited applications. Significant Events in His Life: 1791: Born; 1810: Entered Trinity College, Cambridge; 1814: graduated Peterhouse; 1817 received MA from Cambridge; 1820: founded the Analytical Society with Herschel and Peacock; 1823: started work on the Difference Engine through funding from the British Government; 1827: published a table of logarithms from 1 to 108000; 1828: appointed to the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge (never presented a lecture); 1831: founded the British Association for the Advancement of Science; 1832: published "Economy of Manufactures and Machinery"; 1833: began work on the Analytical Engine; 1834: founded the Statistical Society of London; 1864: published Passages from the Life of a Philosopher; 1871: Died. Other inventions: The cowcatcher, dynamometer, standard railroad gauge, uniform postal rates, occulting lights for lighthouses, Greenwich time signals, heliograph opthalmoscope. He also had an interest in cyphers and lock-picking, but abhorred street musicians.

16. Charles Babbage (1791-1871) Ensimmäinen Edellinen Seuraava Viimeinen Indeksi Teksti. Dia 9 (12). http://www.tcs.hut.fi/~orponen/opetus/ttp/980908/luento/sld009.htm

17. Charles Babbage (1791-1871) Charles Babbage (17911871). Idea logiikan mekanisoinnista. ”AnalyticalEngine” yksityiskohtainen suunnitelma mekaanisesta, rakenteeltaan http://www.tcs.hut.fi/~orponen/opetus/ttp/980908/luento/tsld009.htm

Charles Babbage (1791-1871) Idea logiikan mekanisoinnista ”Analytical Engine”: yksityiskohtainen suunnitelma mekaanisesta, rakenteeltaan pääpiirteissään nykyisen kaltaisesta tietokoneesta Ohjelmointi-ideoita: Lady Ada Lovelace (o.s. Byron) Määrärahojen puutteen takia kone ei koskaan valmistunut Funktioiden taulukointiin yksinkertaisempia ”differenssikoneita”: 2 kpl valmistettiin Ruotsissa Edellinen dia Seuraava dia Palaa ensimmäiseen diaan Tarkastele graafista versiota

18. Charles Babbage Institute: EXHIBITS > Who Was Charles Babbage? Introduction. The calculating engines of English mathematician Charles Babbage (17911871)are among the most celebrated icons in the prehistory of computing. http://www.cbi.umn.edu/exhibits/cb.html

Introduction The calculating engines of English mathematician Charles Babbage (1791-1871) are among the most celebrated icons in the prehistory of computing. Babbage’s Difference Engine No.1 was the first successful automatic calculator and remains one of the finest examples of precision engineering of the time. Babbage is sometimes referred to as "father of computing." The Charles Babbage Foundation took his name to honor his intellectual contributions and their relation to modern computers. Biographical note Charles Babbage was born in London on December 26, 1791, 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. Babbage co-founded the Analytical Society for promoting continental mathematics and reforming the mathematics of Newton then taught at the university. In his twenties Babbage worked as a mathematician, principally in the calculus of functions. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1816 and played a prominent part in the foundation of the Astronomical Society (later Royal Astronomical Society) in 1820. It was about this time that Babbage first acquired the interest in calculating machinery that became his consuming passion for the remainder of his life.

19. Inventor Charles Babbage (URL ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Babbage.html Charles Babbage (17911871)Lots of photographs of Charles Babbage and his inventions. http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/babbage.htm

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