Person/Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage
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- English mathematician and mechanical engineer, 1791–1871.
- Designed the Difference Engine, a machine for calculating and printing mathematical tables, and then the Analytical/Engine, a general-purpose calculating machine he first described in 18/3/7.
- Neither engine was finished in his lifetime. He worked with Person/Ada Lovelace, whose notes on the Analytical Engine are its best-known description.
- Wrote the memoir Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864).
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