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Charles Babbage, an English mathematician and inventor, is known for conceiving the first automatic digital computer and developing the Difference Engine and Analytical Engine. Although neither machine was completed during his lifetime, Babbage's designs laid the groundwork for modern computing. He also contributed to the establishment of the postal system in England and created various inventions, including a speedometer.

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Charles Babbage, an English mathematician and inventor, is known for conceiving the first automatic digital computer and developing the Difference Engine and Analytical Engine. Although neither machine was completed during his lifetime, Babbage's designs laid the groundwork for modern computing. He also contributed to the establishment of the postal system in England and created various inventions, including a speedometer.

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Charles Babbage, (born December 26, 1791,


London, England—died October 18, 1871,
London), English mathematician and inventor
who is credited with having conceived the first
automatic digital computer.
Babbage, Charles
Babbage, Charles
In 1812 Babbage helped found the Analytical
Society, whose object was to introduce
developments from the European continent into
English mathematics. In 1816 he was elected a
fellow of the Royal Society of London. He was
instrumental in founding the Royal Astronomical
(1820) and Statistical (1834) societies.

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Difference Engine
Difference Engine
The idea of mechanically calculating
mathematical tables first came to Babbage in 1812
or 1813. Later he made a small calculator that
could perform certain mathematical
computations to eight decimals. Then in 1823 he
obtained government support for the design of a
projected machine, the Difference Engine, with a
20-decimal capacity. The Difference Engine was a
digital device: it operated on discrete digits rather
than smooth quantities, and the digits were
decimal (0–9), represented by positions on
toothed wheels rather than binary digits (“bits”).
When one of the toothed wheels turned from
nine to zero, it caused the next wheel to advance
one position, carrying the digit. Like modern
computers, the Difference Engine had
storage—that is, a place where data could be held
temporarily for later processing. Its construction
required the development of mechanical
engineering techniques, to which Babbage of
necessity devoted himself. In the meantime
(1828–39), he served as Lucasian Professor of
Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
However, the full engine, designed to be
room-sized, was never built, at least not by
Babbage. All design and construction ceased in
1833, when Joseph Clement, the machinist
responsible for actually building the machine,
refused to continue unless he was prepaid.

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During the mid-1830s Babbage developed plans
for the Analytical Engine, the forerunner of the
modern digital computer. In that device he
envisioned the capability of performing any
arithmetical operation on the basis of instructions
from punched cards, a memory unit in which to
store numbers, sequential control, and most of
the other basic elements of the present-day
computer. As with the Difference Engine, the
project was far more complex than anything
theretofore built. The memory unit was to be large
enough to hold 1,000 50-digit numbers; this was
larger than the storage capacity of any computer
built before 1960. The machine was to be
steam-driven and run by one attendant.
In 1843 Babbage’s friend mathematician Ada
Lovelace translated a French paper about the
Analytical Engine and, in her own annotations,
published how it could perform a sequence of
calculations, the first computer program. The
Analytical Engine, however, was never completed.
Babbage’s design was forgotten until his
unpublished notebooks were discovered in 1937.
In 1991 British scientists built Difference Engine
No. 2—accurate to 31 digits—to Babbage’s
specifications, and in 2000 the printer for the
Difference Engine was also built.

Babbage, Charles
Babbage, Charles
Babbage made notable contributions in other
areas as well. He assisted in establishing the
modern postal system in England and compiled
the first reliable actuarial tables. He also invented
a type of speedometer and the locomotive
cowcatcher.
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