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

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

* Georgia on My Mind is a novelette by Charles Sheffield which involves two major themes: being widowed and the quest for a legendary Babbage computer.

The encoding of data by discrete bits was used in the punched cards invented by Basile Bouchon and Jean-Baptiste Falcon ( 1732 ), developed by Joseph Marie Jacquard ( 1804 ), and later adopted by Semen Korsakov, Charles Babbage, Hermann Hollerith, and early computer manufacturers like IBM.

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

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.

* SC34 Committee Records, Charles Babbage Institute – Collection on the development of SGML and other standards influential in the development of current XML tools ; documents include early drafts of SGML administrative materials, documentation, working group papers, and standards for computer languages.

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* July 3 – Charles Babbage publishes a proposal for a " difference engine ", a 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.

* Neil R. Lincoln with 18 Control Data Corporation ( CDC ) engineers on computer architecture and design, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.

* Oral history interview with Frank C. Mullaney at the Charles Babbage Institute-discusses Engineering Research Associates ( ERA ), especially the Atlas ( ERA 1101 ) computer, and successors ; John L. Hill ; the acquisition of ERA by Remington Rand, J. Presper Eckert, and the formation of Control Data Corporation

Sabine's appointment was violently attacked by Charles Babbage, the father of the computer, ( largely on account of his associations with the Royal Society, whose scientific credentials Babbage did not recognise ) in a pamphlet entitled Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of its Causes.

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.

* Charles Babbage ( 1791 – 1871 ), mathematician, computer scientist

The most iconic aspects of the show are the large computer screen, named " Mr Babbage " by original host Bob Monkhouse and the famous computerised " Eh-uh " sound used when wrong answers are given.

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 ).

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 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.

Oliphant informs her that he is aware of her true identity, but will not pursue it, although he does want information that would compromise her seducer, Charles Egremont MP, now regarded as an obstacle to the strategies and political ambitions of Lords Brunel and Babbage.

The novel has attracted the attention of scholars, including Jay Clayton, who explores the book's attitude toward hacking, as well as its treatment of Babbage and Ada Lovelace ; Herbert Sussman, who demonstrates how the book rewrites Benjamin Disraeli's novel Sybil ; and Brian McHale, who relates it to the postmodern interest in finding a " new way of ' doing ' history in fiction.

Ada Byron, daughter of Lord Byron and colleague of Charles Babbage, lived in the now demolished Kirkby Hall during her childhood with her mother, Annabella Milbanke.

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.

Charles Babbage was known to have broken a variant of the cipher as early as 1854 ; however, he didn't publish his work.

Not until the 1840s ( Babbage ) was any technique known which could reliably break any of the polyalphabetic ciphers.

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 ).

# Once the keyword length is known, the following observation of Babbage and Kasiski comes into play.

The Code Book covers a diverse set of historical topics including the Man in the Iron Mask, Arabic cryptography, Charles Babbage, the mechanisation of cryptography, the Enigma Machine, and the decipherment of Linear B and other ancient writing systems.

* Passages from the life of a philosopher by Charles Babbage

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.

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.

Babbage recognized that errors in previous tables were not the result of human calculating errors but from human error in the printing process.

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.

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.

* 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.