who was charles babbage
Introduction. The calculating engines of English mathematician Charles Babbage (1791-1871) are among the most celebrated icons in the prehistory of computing. Babbageâs Difference Engine No.1 was the first successful automatic calculator and remains one of the finest examples of precision engineering of the time.ublications about Charles Babbage: 1  Charles Babbage. 2  Passages from the Life of a Philosopher. ( 3 New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, NJ, 1994). 4  Babbage, Henry Prevost. 5  Babbage's Calculating Engines: A Collection of Papers. ( 6 Los Angeles: Tomash, 1982) Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series, vol. 7  2.