The Father of computers

Name:Charles Babbage

Amazing Fact:Inventor of The Difference Engine.

Country:England

Babbage is known for his ideas about building an "analytical engine", the predecessor of the digital computer. Although he never built his computer, his ideas influenced those who later carried out his ideas.

He is widely known as “The Father of computers”.

Charles Babbage was born in Teignmouth, Devonshire, England on December 26, 1792.the son of Benjamin Babbage, a London banker and Elizabeth teape. He attended Cambridge University. In the 1820's Babbage began developing his Difference Engine, a mechanical device that can perform simple mathematical calculations. Babbage was unable to complete it because of a lack of funding. During his working career he was a professor of mathematics at Cambridge university.In the 1830's Babbage began developing his Analytical Engine, which was designed to carry out more complicated calculations, but this device was never built.

Through out his life Babbage worked in many intellectual fields typical of his day and made contributions that would have assured his fame irrespective of the difference Engine and Analytical Engines.He died at his home in Dorset Street, London .on October 18, 1871.

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