Timeline of Charles Babbage

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  • Born

    Born

  • His Degree

    His Degree
    He received an honorary degree, without even being examinated

  • Married

    Married
    Charles Babbage married Georgiana Whitmore.

  • Presented

    Presented
    Babbage presented something that he called "difference engine" to the Royal Astronomical Society and in a paper entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables."

  • Engine

    Engine
    He discussed the main principles of a calculating engine in a letter he wrote to Sir H. Davy.

  • Award

    Award
    Babbage won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society "for his invention of an engine for calculating mathematical and astronomical tables".

  • Created a Book

    Created a Book
    Babbage published On the Economy of Machinery and Manufacture.
  • Period: to

    Tried to Build a Machine

    He tried to build a machine that would be programmable to do any kind of calculation, not just ones relating to polynomial equations

  • Design Alive

    Design Alive
    A design for this emerged.

  • Govermant Gave Up

    Govermant Gave Up
    The government officially abandoned the project.
  • Period: to

    Secound Difference Engine

    Babbage started designing a second difference engine using knowledge gained from the analytical engine. It used only about 8000 parts, three times fewer than the first. It was a marvel of mechanical engineering.

  • Died

    Died

  • Finally Put Together

    Finally Put Together
    A difference engine was completed, starting from Babbage's original plans, and it functioned perfectly.
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