Charles Babbage KH FRS (/ˈbæbɪdʒ/; 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical... 111 KB (12,207 words) - 09:55, 13 April 2024 |
Analytical engine (redirect from Babbage engine) mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage. It was first described in 1837 as the successor to Babbage's difference engine, which was a design... 43 KB (3,893 words) - 10:50, 23 April 2024 |
an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine... 83 KB (8,982 words) - 13:03, 26 April 2024 |
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... 39 KB (4,440 words) - 14:46, 26 April 2024 |
IT History Society (redirect from Charles Babbage Institute) facilitating archival and historical research. Formerly known as the Charles Babbage Foundation, it advises historians, promotes collaboration among academic... 12 KB (1,214 words) - 07:09, 5 April 2024 |
Charles Babbage's Saturday night soirées were gatherings held by the mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage at his home in Dorset Street in London... 7 KB (768 words) - 12:51, 10 February 2024 |
British engineer and industrialist, chiefly remembered as the maker of Charles Babbage's first difference engine, between 1824 and 1833. Joseph Clement was... 8 KB (879 words) - 05:00, 14 April 2023 |
establishment, the professorship has been held by, among others, Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage, George Stokes, Joseph Larmor, Paul Dirac, and Stephen Hawking. Henry... 9 KB (507 words) - 18:32, 23 April 2024 |
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... 4 KB (300 words) - 22:56, 29 October 2023 |
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... 9 KB (804 words) - 05:36, 25 February 2024 |
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... 14 KB (1,601 words) - 07:40, 22 January 2024 |
Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer is a biographical book about the Victorian computer pioneer Charles Babbage (1791–1871). The book was written... 6 KB (423 words) - 16:51, 15 March 2024 |
Isaac Newton (1672), Benjamin Franklin (1756), Charles Babbage (1816), Michael Faraday (1824), Charles Darwin (1839), Ernest Rutherford (1903), Srinivasa... 33 KB (2,708 words) - 08:55, 2 April 2024 |
Charles Babbage (1791–1871), was an English mathematician, mechanical engineer, and pioneering computer scientist. Babbage may also refer to: Babbage... 857 bytes (132 words) - 03:16, 30 June 2023 |
2008; Set of interviews: Oral history interview with John McCarthy at Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. McCarthy discusses... 34 KB (3,194 words) - 19:01, 24 March 2024 |
Until the Y2K Computer Problem? Center for Y2K and Society Records, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Documents activities of Center... 117 KB (12,654 words) - 06:11, 27 April 2024 |
Gaspard de Prony (section Influence on Charles Babbage) JSTOR 44869096. Mosconi, Jean (1983). "Charles Babbage : vers une théorie du calcul mécanique" [Charles Babbage: towards a theory of mechanical calculation]... 16 KB (1,857 words) - 05:41, 17 February 2024 |
International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium established the Charles Babbage Award to be given each year to a conference participant in recognition... 5 KB (489 words) - 16:16, 29 March 2024 |
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... 25 KB (3,314 words) - 15:06, 4 January 2024 |