Charles Babbage: The Pioneer Of The Computer

Part I of Essay
Charles Babbage, the British mathematician and inventor, was born December 26, 1791 in Teignmouth, Devonshire UK. He was the son of a Tory banker - Benjamin (Old Five Percent) Babbage. He designed and built mechanical computing machines on principles that anticipated the ....

Part II of Essay
.... Babbage started work on the Difference Engine in 1823 through funding from the British Government and in 1827 published a table of logarithms from 1 to 108000. In 1828 he was appointed to the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge, though he never presented a lecture. He founded the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1831 and in 1832 he published "Economy of Manufactures and Machinery". 1833 marked the beginning of his work on the Analytical Engine. In 1834 he founded the Statistical Society of London. Thirty y ....