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    Charles Babbage KH FRS (/ˈbæbɪdʒ/; 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical...
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    mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage. It was first described in 1837 as the successor to Babbage's difference engine, which was a design...
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    an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine...
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    Difference engine (category Charles Babbage)
    functions. It was designed in the 1820s, and was first created by Charles Babbage. The name difference engine is derived from the method of divided differences...
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  • facilitating archival and historical research. Formerly known as the Charles Babbage Foundation, it advises historians, promotes collaboration among academic...
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    with Charles Babbage as an assistant while Babbage was working on his "Analytical Engine", the first mechanical computer. During her work with Babbage, Ada...
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    transcription of Charles Babbage's lecture on the analytical engine at the University of Turin, "Notions sur la machine analytique de Charles Babbage" ("Elements...
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  • Charles Babbage's Saturday night soirées were gatherings held by the mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage at his home in Dorset Street in London...
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    Herschel Babbage" and was frequently referred to as "Herschel Babbage". He was the son of English mathematician and inventor, Charles Babbage. Babbage was...
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    enough and reliable enough to be used daily in an office environment. Charles Babbage started the design of the first automatic mechanical calculator, his...
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  • British engineer and industrialist, chiefly remembered as the maker of Charles Babbage's first difference engine, between 1824 and 1833. Joseph Clement was...
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    with the rank of major general, he continued the work of his father, Charles Babbage, whom he had assisted as a student. He organised and edited his father's...
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  • establishment, the professorship has been held by, among others, Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage, George Stokes, Joseph Larmor, Paul Dirac, and Stephen Hawking. Henry...
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    middle of the 1970s closing an industry that had lasted for 120 years. Charles Babbage designed two new kinds of mechanical calculators, which were so big...
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    The Charles Babbage Premium was an annual award "for an outstanding paper on the design or use of electronic computers". The award was established in...
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    Charles Babbage, inventor. London: Hutchinson. Collier, Bruce (1970). The little engine that could've: The calculating machines of Charles Babbage. Garland...
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  • Charles Babbage (1791–1871), was an English mathematician, mechanical engineer, and pioneering computer scientist. Babbage may also refer to: Babbage...
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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...
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  • novel written and drawn by Sydney Padua. It features Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage in an alternative universe where they have successfully built an Analytical...
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  • The Difference Engine (category Charles Babbage)
    technological and social change has occurred after entrepreneurial inventor Charles Babbage succeeded in his ambition to build a mechanical computer (actually...
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    work, joining Lyell's social circle of scientists and experts such as Charles Babbage, who described God as a programmer of laws. Darwin stayed with his...
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    J. Presper Eckert, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Oral history interview with Carl Chambers, Charles Babbage Institute, University...
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    Isaac Newton (1672), Benjamin Franklin (1756), Charles Babbage (1816), Michael Faraday (1824), Charles Darwin (1839), Ernest Rutherford (1903), Srinivasa...
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    mathematical tables, which had been the initial goal of British inventor Charles Babbage for his "analytical engine" in 1837. According to Edmund Berkeley,...
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  • International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium established the Charles Babbage Award to be given each year to a conference participant in recognition...
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    2008; Set of interviews: Oral history interview with John McCarthy at Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. McCarthy discusses...
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    Until the Y2K Computer Problem? Center for Y2K and Society Records, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Documents activities of Center...
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    definition of outline. Jacquard's invention had a deep influence on Charles Babbage. In that respect, he is viewed by some authors as a precursor of modern...
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    JSTOR 44869096. Mosconi, Jean (1983). "Charles Babbage : vers une théorie du calcul mécanique" [Charles Babbage: towards a theory of mechanical calculation]...
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    eg. boats use a pit log, while aircraft use an airspeed indicator. Charles Babbage is credited with creating an early type of a speedometer, which was...
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