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  2. Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer - Wikipedia

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    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. The book was published by Oxford University Press in 1982 (hardcover) and Princeton University Press in 1982 and 1985 ...

  3. Charles Babbage - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Wikipedia : WikiProject Computing/List of books on the ...

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    Charles Babbage and his calculating Engines. London Science Museum. Swade, Doran (2000). The Cogwheel Brain: Charles Babbage and the quest to build the first computer. Little, Brown. Swade, Doran (2001). The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer. Viking. ISBN 0-670-91020-1. Toole, Betty Alexandra, ed. (1998).

  5. List of pioneers in computer science - Wikipedia

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    Helped establish and taught the first graduate course in computer science (at Harvard); invented the APL programming language; contributions to interactive computing 1801 Jacquard, Joseph Marie: Built and demonstrated the Jacquard loom, a programmable mechanized loom controlled by a tape constructed from punched cards 1206 Al-Jazari

  6. Computer: A History of the Information Machine - Wikipedia

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    Computer: A History of the Information Machine is a history of computing written by Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray first published in 1996. It follows the history of "information machines" from Charles Babbage's difference engine through Herman Hollerith's tabulating machines to the invention of the modern electronic digital computer.

  7. List of people considered father or mother of a scientific field

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    Computer science: Charles Babbage Alan Turing: In the history of computer science Babbage is often regarded as one of the first pioneers of computing and Turing invented the principle of the modern computer and the stored program concept that almost all modern day computers use. Computer programming: Ada Lovelace Charles Babbage

  8. Analytical engine - Wikipedia

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    The analytical engine was a proposed digital mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage. [2] [3] It was first described in 1837 as the successor to Babbage's Difference Engine, which was a design for a simpler mechanical calculator.

  9. Difference engine - Wikipedia

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    This work led the Science Museum to construct a working calculating section of difference engine No. 2 from 1985 to 1991, under Doron Swade, the then Curator of Computing. This was to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Babbage's birth in 1991. In 2002, the printer which Babbage originally designed for the difference engine was also completed. [35]