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He received an honorary degree, without even being examinated
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Charles Babbage married Georgiana Whitmore.
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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."
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He discussed the main principles of a calculating engine in a letter he wrote to Sir H. Davy.
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Babbage won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society "for his invention of an engine for calculating mathematical and astronomical tables".
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Babbage published On the Economy of Machinery and Manufacture.
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He tried to build a machine that would be programmable to do any kind of calculation, not just ones relating to polynomial equations
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A design for this emerged.
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The government officially abandoned the project.
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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.
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A difference engine was completed, starting from Babbage's original plans, and it functioned perfectly.
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