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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 December 2024. English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871) "Babbage" redirects here. For other uses, see Babbage (disambiguation). Charles Babbage KH FRS Babbage in 1860 Born (1791-12-26) 26 December 1791 London, England Died 18 October 1871 (1871-10-18) (aged 79) Marylebone, London ...
Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer is a biographical book about the Victorian computer pioneer Charles Babbage (1791–1871). The book was written by Anthony Hyman (1928–2011), a British historian of computing .
Charles Babbage (1791–1871) – invented first mechanical computer called the supreme mathematician; Charles Bachman – American computer scientist, known for Integrated Data Store; Roland Carl Backhouse – mathematics of computer program construction, algorithmic problem solving, ALGOL; John Backus – FORTRAN, Backus–Naur form, first ...
Charles Cantor (born 1942), U.S. – Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (molecular biology) Mario Ramberg Capecchi (born 1937), together with Sir Martin John Evans (born 1941), and Oliver Smithies (1925–2017), U.S. – Gene targeting; Roxey Ann Caplin (1793–1888), UK – Victorian-style corset; Arturo Caprotti (1881–1938), Italy ...
Charles Babbage began to construct a small difference engine in c. 1819 [4] and had completed it by 1822 (Difference Engine 0). [5] He announced his invention on 14 June 1822, in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society, entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables". [6]
Laura J. Snyder (US, born 1964) – Charles Babbage, John F.W. Herschel, William Whewell, Richard Jones, Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and Oliver Sacks; Dava Sobel (US, born 1947) – John Harrison, Sister Maria Celeste, daughter of Galileo, Galileo; Maynard Solomon (US, 1930–2020) – Beethoven, W. A. Mozart
April 16 – Johann Ritter von Oppolzer (born 1808), Austrian physician. June 9 – Anna Atkins (b. 1799), British botanist. [13] May 11 – John Herschel (born 1792), English mathematician and astronomer. October 18 – Charles Babbage (born 1791), English mathematician and inventor of computing machines. December 8 – James Murray (born 1788 ...
1614: John Wilkins born. 1815: Charles Bernard Renouvier born. 1921: Ismail al-Faruqi born. 3 ... Charles Babbage born. 1893: Mao Zedong born. 1934: Richard Swinburne ...