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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), UK – Analytical engine (semi-automatic) Tabitha Babbit (1779–1853), U.S. – Saw mill circular saw; Victor Babeș (1854–1926), Romania – Babesia, the founder of serum therapy; Leo Baekeland (1863–1944), Belgian–American – Velox photographic paper and Bakelite
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), also known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
In his work Essays on Automatics, published in 1914, Torres Quevedo formulates what will be a new branch of engineering: automation and designed an electromechanical version of Babbage's Analytical engine which introduced floating-point arithmetic. 1991 Torvalds, Linus: Created the first version of the Linux kernel. 1965 Tukey, John W.
Babbage left England when his wife and father died in 1827. On his return in 1828, now in possession of a considerable inheritance, he began to host Saturday evening parties. [1] The science historian James A. Secord describes the parties as "scientific soirées". Secord writes that Babbage imported the idea from France, and once established ...
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 ...
4 September – Robert Knox, Scottish-born surgeon, anatomist and zoologist (died 1862) 13 September – William Betty, child actor (died 1874) 22 September – Michael Faraday, scientist (died 1867) 29 October – John Elliotson, physician (died 1868) 26 December – Charles Babbage, mathematician and inventor (died 1871)