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The Analytical Engine was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician Charles Babbage.
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* Honeywell v. Sperry Rand Records, 1846-1973, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.
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.
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Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
* Oral history interview with Isaac Levin Auerbach Charles Babbage Institute University of Minnesota.
* Oral history interview with Carel Sellenraad Charles Babbage Institute University of Minnesota.
* Oral history interview with Ovid M. Smith Charles Babbage Institute University of Minnesota.
The world's first computer printer was a 19th century mechanically driven apparatus invented by Charles Babbage for his difference engine.
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.
However after the obituary appeared, a nephew wrote to say that Charles Babbage was born one year earlier, in 1791.
Grave of Charles Babbage at Kensal Green Cemetery
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 ".
* 1791 Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor ( d. 1871 )
Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.
Leonardo Torres y Quevedo in 1914 designed an electro-mechanical version of the Analytical Engine of Charles Babbage which included floating-point arithmetic.
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.
* 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 ".
Specifically, Charles Babbage planned to use cards to store programs in his Analytical engine.
Charles Babbage, Alan Turing und John von Neumann Oldenbourg Verlag, München 2012, XXVI, 224 Seiten, ISBN 978-3-486-71366-4
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* Oral history interview with John M. M. Pinkerton, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.

Charles and FRS
Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, Kt FRS ( 14 November 1797 22 February 1875 ) was a British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day.
Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS ( 4 May 1825 29 June 1895 ) was an English biologist ( anatomist ), known as " Darwin's Bulldog " for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
Sir Francis Galton FRS (; 16 February 1822 17 January 1911 ), cousin of Douglas Strutt Galton, cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath: anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician.
Charles Macintosh FRS ( 29 December 1766 25 July 1843 ) was a Scottish chemist and inventor of waterproof fabrics.
Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG, PC, FRS ( 16 April 1661 19 May 1715 ) was an English poet and statesman.
Sir Charles Barry FRS ( 23 May 1795 12 May 1860 ) was an English architect, best known for his role in the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster ( also known as the Houses of Parliament ) in London during the mid-19th century, but also responsible for numerous other buildings and gardens.
Charles Burney FRS ( 7 April 1726 12 April 1814 ) was an English music historian and father of authors Frances Burney and Sarah Burney.
Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope aka Charles Mahon, 3rd Earl Stanhope FRS ( 3 August 1753 15 December 1816 ) was a British statesman and scientist.
John Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer PC, FRS ( 30 May 1782-1 October 1845 ), styled Viscount Althorp from 1783 to 1834, was a British statesman.
Charles Burney, Junior FRS, DD ( born at Lynn Regis, Norfolk December 4, 1757, died at Deptford, then in Kent, on December 28, 1817 ) was an English classical scholar, schoolmaster and clergyman.
Sir Frederic Charles Bartlett FRS ( 20 October 1886 30 September 1969 ) was a British psychologist and the first professor of experimental psychology at the University of Cambridge.
Charles Glover Barkla FRS ( 7 June 1877 to 23 October 1944 ) was a British physicist, and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917 for his work in X-ray spectroscopy and related areas in the study of X-rays ( Roentgen rays ).
Field Marshal Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond, 3rd Duke of Lennox, 3rd Duke of Aubigny, KG, PC, FRS ( 22 February 1735 29 December 1806 ), styled Earl of March until 1750, was a British politician and office holder noteworthy for his advanced views on the issue of parliamentary reform.
Charles Philip Yorke PC, FRS, FSA ( 12 March 1764 13 March 1834 ), was a British politician.
Sir Charles Algernon Parsons OM KCB FRS ( 13 June 1854 11 February 1931 ) was an Anglo-Irish engineer, best known for his invention of the steam turbine.
Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg PC FRS ( 26 October 1778 23 April 1866 ) was a Scottish politician and colonial administrator.
Sir Charles Wilkins, KH, FRS ( 1749 May 13, 1836 ), was an English typographer and Orientalist, notable as the first translator of Bhagavad Gita into English, and as the creator of the first Bengali typeface.
Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery KT PC FRS ( 28 July 1674 28 August 1731 ) was an English nobleman, statesman and patron of the sciences.
Charles Tate Regan FRS ( 1 February 1878 12 January 1943 ) was a British ichthyologist, working mainly around the beginning of the 20th century.
Sir Horace Darwin, KBE, FRS ( 13 May 1851 29 September 1928 ), a son of the English naturalist Charles Darwin, was a civil engineer.
Sir Francis " Frank " Darwin, FRS ( 16 August 1848 19 September 1925 ), a son of the British naturalist and scientist Charles Darwin, followed his father into botany.
Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester PC, FRS ( 14 October 1757 8 May 1829 ) was a British barrister and statesman.
Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther FRS, also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther ( 3 October 1830 1 February 1914 ), was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist.

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