Charles Babbage (CivRev)

Charles Babbage is a Great Person in Civilization Revolution.
== Stats ==
* Type of Great Person: Great Artist/Thinker
* Tech Required: Networking
== Gameplay ==
Charm the hearts of an entire metropolis with the Great Artist/Thinker! You may use them to instantly convert an enemy city to your side or you may have them settle in an existing city to increase all Culture production by 50%.
== History ==
Charles Babbage (1791 - 1871) was an English mathematician and inventor and is credited with envisioning the first programmable computer. He is remembered for designing two devices - the Difference Engine and the Analytical Machine. The Difference Engine was a massive hand-cranked machine capable of creating numerical tables more accurate than even modern calculators. Babbage's Analytical Machine was capable of performing complex calculations based on human input - the first computer. While Babbage himself completed neither of these works - in part because of his own ceaseless perfectionism - working machines based on his designs would be completed by later researchers, proving his creations both viable and decades before their time.
== Fun Facts ==
Ada Lovelace, daughter of the poet Lord Byron, was a mathematician and close associate of Babbage. She wrote the first program to be performed on Babbage's Analytical Machine and for that is remembered as the world's first computer programmer.
When a Difference Engine based on Babbage's designs was built in London in the 1990s, it weighed over three tons (2.7 metric tons).
== See also ==
* Charles Babbage in other games
Category:Great Artist/Thinker (CivRev)