Charles Babbage
English polymath.
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Jacquard machine
Device fitted to a loom that simplifies the process of manufacturing textiles with such complex patterns as brocade, damask and matelassé.
Device fitted to a loom that simplifies the process of manufacturing textiles with such complex patterns as brocade, damask and matelassé.
This use of replaceable punched cards to control a sequence of operations is considered an important step in the history of computing hardware, having inspired Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine.
Science Museum, London
Major museum on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London.
Major museum on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London.
In the landing area to access the gallery (stair C) is a working example of Charles Babbage's Difference engine No.2.
Peterhouse, Cambridge
Oldest constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England, founded in 1284 by Hugh de Balsham, Bishop of Ely.
Oldest constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England, founded in 1284 by Hugh de Balsham, Bishop of Ely.
Peterhouse alumni are notably eminent within the natural sciences, including scientists Lord Kelvin, Henry Cavendish, Charles Babbage, James Clerk Maxwell, James Dewar, Frank Whittle, and five Nobel prize winners in science: Sir John Kendrew, Sir Aaron Klug, Archer Martin, Max Perutz, and Michael Levitt.
Trinity College, Cambridge
Constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
Constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
Trinity alumni include the father of the scientific method (or empiricism) Francis Bacon, six British prime ministers (the highest number of any Cambridge college), physicists Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell, Ernest Rutherford and Niels Bohr, mathematicians Srinivasa Ramanujan and Charles Babbage, poets Lord Byron and Lord Tennyson, English jurist Edward Coke, writers Vladimir Nabokov and A. A. Milne, historians Lord Macaulay and G. M. Trevelyan and philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell (whom it expelled before reaccepting).
John Herschel
English polymath active as a mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor, experimental photographer who invented the blueprint, and did botanical work.
English polymath active as a mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor, experimental photographer who invented the blueprint, and did botanical work.
It was during his time as an undergraduate that he became friends with the mathematicians Charles Babbage and George Peacock.
Ada Lovelace
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852) was an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
Analytical Engine
The Analytical Engine was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage.
Difference engine
Automatic mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions.
Automatic mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions.
It was designed in the 1820s, and was first created by Charles Babbage.
A215 road
A road in south London, starting at Elephant and Castle and finishing around Shirley.
A road in south London, starting at Elephant and Castle and finishing around Shirley.
Charles Babbage, the Victorian mathematician and computer pioneer, was probably born at 44 Crosby Row, now Larcom Street, Walworth Road on 26 December 1791.
Mechanical computer
Computer built from mechanical components such as levers and gears rather than electronic components.
Computer built from mechanical components such as levers and gears rather than electronic components.
Difference Engine, 1822 – Charles Babbage's mechanical device to calculate polynomials.