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Charles Babbage

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  • December 26th, 1791

    Charles Babbage was born in London, United Kingdom
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    Education

    Trinity College, Cambridge (received MA)

  • Analytical Society

    Babbage, John Herschel, George Peacock founded the Analytic Society

  • Difference Engine

    Babbage intended to compile and print mathematical tables

  • First steps

    Charles Babbage was finding ways to construct machines that would construct numbers

  • Logarithms and death of family members

    Babbage published a table of logarithms from 1 to 108000. His father, wife, and one son died

  • British Association

    Babbage founded the British Association for the Advancement of Science

  • “Economy of Manufactures and Machinery”

    Babbage published the “Economy of Manufactures and Machinery”

  • Ada Lovelace and Analytical Engine

    Ada Lovelace meets Charles Babbage. Babbage also started working on the Analytical Engine that was intended to perform any mathematical task

  • Statistical Society of London

    Babbage founded the Statistical Society of London

  • Analytic Engine

    Babbage published a paper that described the Analytic Engine, which was called mechanical computer at the time of published

  • Completion of the Analytical Engine

    Design of the Analytical Engine completed

  • “Passages from the Life of a Philosopher”

    Babbage published the “Passages from the Life of a Philosopher”

  • Death

    Died in London. England

  • Science Museum of London

    A project to build a complete Babbage Engine was launched