Charles Babbage
Name:
Charles Babbage
Born: December 10, 1815 in London, England
Death: October 18, 1871 (Age 79)
Computer related contributions
- Created the first mechanical computer.
- Invented and developed but never completed the Difference Engine.
- Considered a father of the computing.
Publications
- A Comparative View of the Various Institutions for the Assurance of Lives
- Ninth Bridgewater Treatise
- On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures
- Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
- Reflections on the Decline of Science in England
- Table of Logarithms of the Natural Numbers from 1 to 108,000
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