Babbage was never able to complete construction of any of his machines due to conflicts with his chief engineer and inadequate funding.

Construction of this machine was never completed ; Babbage had conflicts with his chief engineer, Joseph Clement, and ultimately the British government withdrew its funding for the project.

However, the possibility of actually constructing a conscious machine was probably first discussed by Ada Lovelace, in a set of notes written in 1842 about the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage, a precursor ( never built ) to modern electronic computers.

For example, in the 19th century, Charles Babbage described the importance of having " a few simply honest men " on a committee who could be temporarily eliminated when " a peculiarly delicate question arises " so that one of them could " declare truly, if necessary, that he never was present at any meeting at which even a questionable course had been proposed.

Trial model of a part of the Analytical Engine, built by Babbage, as displayed at the Science Museum ( London )

In 1991, the London Science Museum built a complete and working specimen of Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2, a design that incorporated refinements Babbage discovered during the development of the Analytical Engine.

This machine was built using materials and engineering tolerances that would have been available to Babbage, quelling the suggestion that Babbage's designs could not have been produced using the manufacturing technology of his time.

It features a pocket universe where Ada Lovelace and Babbage have built the Analytical Engine and use it to fight crime at Queen Victoria's request.

Homebuilt computers have been built at home for a long time, starting with the Victorian era pioneer Charles Babbage in the 1820s.

The first dynamometer car was probably one built in about 1838 by the " Father of Computing " Charles Babbage.

Computers have been built at home for a long time, starting with the Victorian era pioneer Charles Babbage in the 1820s.

The Analytical Engine was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician Charles Babbage.

* The Orion's Arm online project features the Machina Babbagenseii, fully sentient Babbage inspired mechanical computers.

Charles Babbage, FRS ( 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871 ) was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer.

Considered a " father of the computer ", Babbage is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer that eventually led to more complex designs.

In response to the claim in Whewell's treatise that " We may thus, with the greatest propriety, deny to the mechanical philosophers and mathematicians of recent times any authority with regard to their views of the administration of the universe ", Charles Babbage published what he called The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise, A Fragment.

Other examples of steampunk contain alternate history-style presentations of such technology as lighter-than-air airships, analog computers, or such digital mechanical computers as Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace's Analytical Engine.

* Charles Babbage begins the conceptual design of an " analytical engine ", a mechanical forerunner of the modern computer.

The computer screen name " Mr Babbage " was in recognition to the English mathematician, philosopher, inventor, and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer, Charles Babbage.

It posits a Victorian Britain in which great technological and social change has occurred after entrepreneurial inventor Charles Babbage succeeded in his ambition to build a mechanical computer ( actually his analytical engine rather than the difference engine ).

* July 3-Charles Babbage publishes a proposal for a " difference engine ", a mechanical forerunner of the modern computer for calculating logarithms and trigonometric functions.

* Charles Babbage begins the conceptual design of an " analytical engine ", a mechanical forerunner of the modern computer.

The calculating engines of Charles Babbage were the first automatic mechanical calculators in the world.

* Analytical engine, a 19th century mechanical general-purpose computer designed by Charles Babbage

Various forms of abstractly programmable control had existed during the 19th century: those of the Jacquard loom, player pianos, and mechanical computers pioneered by Charles Babbage and others.

The recognised excellence of Clement's machine tools and his skill in precision engineering led to him being employed by Charles Babbage in 1823 to work on his project to design and build his mechanical calculating device, the difference engine.

To supervise his collections Darwin had to return to London, and on Lyell's advice he planned to arrive on Friday 3 March 1837, in time for one of Charles Babbage's Saturday parties, talking shops about the latest developments " brilliantly attended by fashionable ladies, as well as literary and scientific gents " and " a good mixture of pretty women ", bankers and politicians, where Babbage promoted such projects as his mechanical computer.

On this site, Charles Babbage, the Victorian mechanical computer pioneer, was born in 1791, although the original house has been demolished.

By 1855 the Babbage computers have become mass-produced and ubiquitous, and their use emulates the innovations which actually occurred during our information technology and Internet revolutions.

In 1808, the Babbage family moved into the old Rowdens house in East Teignmouth, and Benjamin Babbage became a warden of the nearby St. Michael's Church.

It was during his time as an undergraduate that he became friends with Charles Babbage and George Peacock.

A time traveller on a reconnaissance mission from the distant future became stranded in England of the late 1800s, and his technology came into the hands of the Royal Society led by Baron Fortesque ( based upon Charles Babbage ), a grand inventor.

Birr therefore became a focus for astronomical observations, and visitors came the observatory from all over the world-including Charles Babbage and Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial.

The area first became developed in the later decades of the 19th Century with the 1868 opening of the Richmond Hill railroad station at the intersection of Hillside Avenue and Babbage Street, on the Montauk railroad line between Long Island City and eastern Long Island.

In 1979, the American Federation of Information Processing Societies ( AFIPS ) became a principal sponsor of the Society, which was renamed the Charles Babbage Institute.

The world's first computer printer was a 19th century mechanically driven apparatus invented by Charles Babbage for his difference engine.

Of the first, a clergyman near Cambridge, Babbage said, " I fear I did not derive from it all the advantages that I might have done.

Its first meeting was held at York in 1831 ; and Brewster, along with Babbage and Sir John F. W. Herschel, had the chief part in shaping its constitution.

The first European to penetrate the mythical barrier was A. C. Gregory from the north in March 1858 ; later the same year, an expedition under B. H. Babbage and Major Warburton in the north-west also crossed the non-existent barrier near modern Marree.

As chemistry journals emerged throughout the 1820s and 1830s, Charles Babbage developed his " difference engine ," the first step towards the modern computer, in 1822 and his " analytical engine ” by 1834.

* Oral history interview with Jack P. Ruina Charles Babbage Institute-interview is mainly concerned with the beginning of the Information Processing Techniques Office within ARPA: the initial goals, how the idea of an information processing program was initiated, the selection of the first director.

Alan Turing ( leading role in the creation of the modern computer ), Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Bell ( the first practical telephone ), John Logie Baird ( world's first working television system, first electronic colour television ), Frank Whittle ( inventor of the jet engine ), Charles Babbage ( who devised the idea of the computer ) and Alexander Fleming ( discoverer of penicillin ) were all British.

This was the first published account of a procedure for attacking polyalphabetic substitution ciphers, especially the Vigenère cipher ( although it is possible Charles Babbage was already aware of a similar method but had kept it secret ).

The award is named after Ada Lovelace, who corresponded with computer pioneer Charles Babbage and is often described as the world's first computer programmer.

In 1998, BMC bought Boole & Babbage, the first software products firm in Silicon Valley, which " creates software to help corporations stitch together computer networks.

Originally Lake Eyre was named Lake Gregory by B. H. Babbage, but the names were modified by Governor Richard Graves MacDonnell, who preferred to name the former after the famous explorer who first investigated the region twenty years prior, Edward John Eyre.