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Vermont becomes the 14th state admitted to the Union.
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This is when Charles Babbage was born in London
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Entered Trinity College, Cambridge; then in 1812 he transferred to Peterhouse, Cambridge.
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Marries Georgiana Whitmore, they had 8 children but only three survived to adulthood
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The most famous events of the war actually took place in 1814, the feud just began in 1812. IT began on June 18th. The siege of Fort McHenry and the Battle of Baltimore both happened on September 14th.
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Along with John Hershel and George Peacock. A group of individuals in the early 19th century to promote calculus and the Newton Notation
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The Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson. It caused the emigration of tens of thousands of America Indians to the West
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He founded the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Robert Hall McCormick along with his son Cyrus, created it. It was the first machine farmers used to harvest crops mechanically.
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Started working on the first automatic mechanical calculator and was used for navigation and celestial tables. Led to the design of the analytical engine that could perform any calculation. His funding was cut so he never got to finish it.
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Lady Ada Byron Lovelace began documentation of Babbage's calculating machine
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Luigi F. Menebrea releases the "Sketch of the Analytical Engine". Ada describes in her notes how the Analytical Engine could be programmed.
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Abraham Lincoln is nominated president following South Carolina's succession from the Union.
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Charles Babbage died on October 18th, 1871 in London, England.
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Science Museum of London launched a project to build a complete Babbage Engine.
