Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
(Photograph of Charles Babbage in 1847.)
The Babbage Difference Engine
Early programming!
Links to other information
Charles Babbage Institute ,
Center for the History of Information Processing,
University of Minnesota.
See
brief biography of Charles Babbage.
Reconstruction of
Babbage's Calculating Engine, 1832 , at the
Science Museum , London.
See
picture .
Babbage's Calculating Engines 1832-71 exhibit from the
Computing Then and Now gallery page in the
Treasures of the Science Museum on-line exhibition.
The Selling of the Difference Engine by Alister Babbage,
great-great-great-grandson of Charles Babbage.
Charles Babbage brief biography by J.A.N. Lee.
Charles Babbage , holder of the
Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge .
See also
bibliography .
Charles Babbage (1791-1871) links in the
History of Mathematics Home Page .
Charles Babbage entry in the
SJSU Virtual Museum , San Jose State University, California,
on the history of science, mathematics and technology,
feauturing individual scientists and mathematicians.
Charles Babbage biographical information by Kate Richmond.
Babbage and
Lovelace entries in
Biography.com .
Augusta Ada Lovelace .
Ada Byron Lovelace , a friend of
Charles Babbage .
Augusta Ada Byron in a
History of Mathematics .
Charles Babbage was a member of the
Royal Society , London.
1822 ,
1833 ,
1842 ,
1847-49 in
Events in the History of Computing
from the
IEEE
Computer Society .
Includes a
photograph of Doron Swade with the
reproduction Analytical Engine in the
Science Museum , London.
J.P. Bowen ,
A Brief History of Algebra and Computing:
An Eclectic Oxonian View ,
IMA Bulletin , pp 6-9, January/February 1995.
Longer version in
OUCL
Technical Report
PRG-TR-9-94 , July 1994.
R.A. Hyman,
Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer ,
Oxford University Press , 1982.
R.A. Hyman (ed.),
Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage
Cambridge University Press , 1989.
J. Palfreman and D. Swade,
The Dream Machine ,
BBC Books, London, 1991.
D. Swade,
Charles Babbage and his Calculating Engines ,
Science Museum , London, 1991.
D. Swade,
Redeeming Charles Babbage's Mechanical Computer,
Scientific American
p 62, February 1993.
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