Charles Babbage | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-02

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00:01:04 1 Early life
00:03:01 2 At the University of Cambridge
00:04:21 3 After Cambridge
00:07:11 3.1 Royal Astronomical Society
00:09:19 3.2 British Lagrangian School
00:11:54 4 Academic
00:14:08 4.1 "Declinarians", learned societies and the BAAS
00:16:08 4.2 iOn the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures/i
00:17:49 4.2.1 "Babbage principle"
00:19:10 4.2.2 Publishing
00:19:45 4.2.3 Influence
00:22:17 4.3 Natural theology
00:24:55 4.4 Religious views
00:28:22 5 Later life
00:29:37 5.1 Metrology programme
00:30:51 5.2 Engineer and inventor
00:32:01 5.3 Cryptography
00:33:34 5.4 Public nuisances
00:35:26 6 Computing pioneer
00:36:24 6.1 Background on mathematical tables
00:38:31 6.2 Difference engine
00:40:31 6.2.1 Completed models
00:41:11 6.3 Analytical Engine
00:42:26 6.4 Ada Lovelace and Italian followers
00:43:48 6.5 Swedish followers
00:44:22 6.6 Legacy
00:45:46 7 Family
00:47:43 8 Death
00:48:21 8.1 Autopsy report
00:48:54 9 Memorials
00:49:55 10 In fiction and film
00:50:58 11 Publications
00:52:45 12 See also



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Charles Babbage  (; 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer.Considered by some to be a "father of the computer", Babbage is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer that eventually led to more complex electronic designs, though all the essential ideas of modern computers are to be found in Babbage's analytical engine. His varied work in other fields has led him to be described as "pre-eminent" among the many polymaths of his century.Parts of Babbage's incomplete mechanisms are on display in the Science Museum in London. In 1991, a functioning difference engine was constructed from Babbage's original plans. Built to tolerances achievable in the 19th century, the success of the finished engine indicated that Babbage's machine would have worked.