Charles Babbage recognized the performance penalty

Now at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, Rhodes is under the command of General Babbage, who has a personal grudge against Rhodes for his actions when he battled Ultimo and Norman Osborn in the previous War Machine series.

In 1822, Charles Babbage proposed the use of such a machine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society on 14 June entitled " Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables ".

What Babbage did not, or was unwilling to, recognize was that the government was interested in economically produced tables, not the engine itself.

* 1822 – Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled " Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables ".

Babbage never built his steam powered mechanical calculators but in 1855 the swede Georg Scheutz became the first of a handful of designers to succeed at building a smaller and simpler model of his difference engine for the purpose of printing mathematical tables.

He was interested in astronomy, being a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and in computers, as is shown by a letter of his to Charles Babbage, dated March 23, 1836, among the Babbage manuscripts at the British Library, returning some logarithm tables that he had borrowed and adding " How happy I shall be when I can see such a work verified and enlarged by your divine machine ".

Babbage, Herschel, and Peacock were also close friends with future judge and patron of science Edward Ryan.

With a few trivial changes, it works exactly as Babbage designed it and shows that Babbage's design ideas were correct, merely too far ahead of his time.

To elevate astronomical science the Astronomical Society of London was founded, and the three reformers Peacock, Babbage and Herschel were again prime movers in the undertaking.

State Senator Nelson Dilworth, former Assemblyman Philip L. Boyd and Riverside State Assemblyman John Babbage were instrumental in shepherding the legislation through the State Legislature.

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.

The records of CODASYL were donated to the Charles Babbage Institute and a catalog may be found at their website.

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

While Charles Babbage wrote that the practice of pure mathematics in Britain was weak, laying the blame at the doorstep of the Society, the practice of mixed mathematics was strong, and although there were not many eminent members of the Society, some did contribute vast amounts – James Bradley, for example, established the nutation of the Earth's axis with 20 years of detailed, meticulous astronomy.

Instrumental in founding the LSS were Richard Jones, Charles Babbage, Adolphe Quetelet, William Whewell and Thomas Malthus.

These shows were later to also influence Charles Babbage in his invention of the difference engine.

The high prices of his large precision tools led to a falling out with Babbage ( at the time workmen were allowed to keep any tools made by them in the course of their work ), but his skill and the quality of his products kept him in employment for many years.

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.

Historically speaking, this result was largely known before Petri, and has been called the theorem of Babbage-Chisini-Enriques ( for Dennis Babbage who completed the proof, Oscar Chisini and Federigo Enriques ).

" In the 1860s the anti-trundling campaign was taken up by Charles Babbage, who blamed the boys for driving iron hoops under horses ' legs, with the result that the rider is thrown and very often the horse breaks a leg.

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

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

In 1832 Charles Babbage proposed using similar cards to program and store computation by his calculating engine.

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.

Babbage understood that the existence of an automatic computer would kindle interest in the field now known as algorithmic efficiency, writing in his Passages from the Life of a Philosopher, " As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science.

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.

" The second was an Oxford tutor from whom Babbage learned enough of the Classics to be accepted to Cambridge.

As a student, Babbage was also a member of other societies such as the Ghost Club, concerned with investigating supernatural phenomena, and the Extractors Club, dedicated to liberating its members from the madhouse, should any be committed to one.

In 1833, Charles Babbage moved on from developing his difference engine ( for navigational calculations ) to a general purpose design, the Analytical Engine, which drew directly on Jacquard's punched cards for its program storage.

Following Babbage, although unaware of his earlier work, was Percy Ludgate, an accountant from Dublin, Ireland.

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.

The historical background diverges from reality around 1824, when it is imagined that Charles Babbage succeeded with his Difference Engine and went on to develop the Analytical Engine.

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.

Bachman papers from 1951 to 2007 are available at the Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.

* Passages from the life of a philosopher by Charles Babbage

While Carroll calls this cipher " unbreakable ", Kasiski had published a volume describing how to break such ciphers from five years earlier, and Charles Babbage had secretly found ways to break polyalphabetic ciphers during the Crimean War.

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.

It runs from the townsite, across Babbage Island to the deep-sea jetty.

" In another story, a reporter wrote: " Both companies sell software that makes computer networks run smoothly and that manages data bases on mainframe computers, but Boole & Babbage, of San Jose, California, gains 58 percent of its revenue from international sales, while the Houston-based BMC gets 35 percent of its revenue from such sales.

In Passages from the Life of a Philosopher, Charles Babbage wrote that MacCullagh was " an excellent friend of mine " and discussed the benefits and drawbacks of the analytical engine with him.

* IBM Rochester: A Half Century of Innovation ( IBM, 2006 — a commemorative history prepared by the Charles Babbage Institute based on interviews and documentary research ) available on line from the CBI website.

It included a comprehensive number of profiles of leading proponents of management theory, from early pioneers such as Charles Babbage and Frederick Winslow Taylor, to those such as Seebohm Rowntree and Mary Parker Follett who innovated and refined their concepts.

For example, Difference Engine No. 2, designed by Charles Babbage in the 19th century, was reconstructed from original drawings studied by Allan Bromley in the 1980s and is now on display at the Science Museum in London, England.