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62. Dicionário Translate this page Charles Babbage (1791-1871) Nasce em Teignmouth, no condado de Devon. Estuda emCambridge, onde, depois de formado, leciona matemática e realiza pesquisas. http://www.educareaprender.com.br/inventor.asp?RegSel=26&Pagina=1

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THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Series Three: The Papers of Charles Babbage, 1791-1871 22 reels of 35mm silver-halide positive microfilm plus guide "The idea of a digital computer is an old one. ... Babbage had all the essential ideas....". Alan Turing Frankenstein was written - Babbage showed that a machine could be created which could replicate certain areas of human thought. Babbage designed first the Difference Engine (an automatic mechanical calculating machine) and then the Analytical Engine (a pioneer digital computer). His designs included a central processing unit ('the Mill'), memory ('the Store'), variables, operators and a printer to output conclusions. The design was one thing, actually constructing the machines with the available technology proved to be extremely difficult. Notwithstanding substantial grants from the Royal Society and the British Government Babbage failed to create either. That glory was left to the Swedish printer, Georg Scheutz, who won a gold medal at the Paris Exhibition for constructing the Difference Engine. A close friend and collaborator in much of his work was Augusta Ada Byron, later the Countess of Lovelace, who was the only child of Lord Byron. She was confident of the importance of the machine, stating that

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68. Charles Babbage 26. John Fauvel, Remembering Charles Babbage (17911871), Interdisciplinaryscience reviews ISR, 17 (1992), 304-308. Ivor Grattan http://www.dean.usma.edu/math/people/rickey/hm/math311/paper-topics/babbage.html

Charles Babbage, 1791-1875. This pioneer in computing is also a most interesting individual. You will enjoy investigating his life and work. Michael Davis, "Righting the early history of computing, or how sausage was made," The Mathematical Intelligencer John Fauvel, "Remembering Charles Babbage (1791-1871)," Interdisciplinary science reviews: ISR Ivor Grattan-Guinness, "Charles Babbage as an algorithmic thinker," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing Galvin Hitchcock, "The "Grand Entertainement": Dramatising the birth and development of mathematical concepts," For the Learning of Mathematics , 12 (1992), 21-27. Abstracted CMJ Media Highlights, 24 (1993), 103 Velma R. Huskey and Harry D. Huskey, "Lady Lovelace and Charles Babbage," Annals of the History of Computing R. Anthony Hyman, "Whiggism in the History of Science and the Study of the Life and Work of Charles Babbage," Annals of the History of Computing Roger Webster, "Charles Babbage: The man behind the machines," Mathematical Spectrum , 24:2 (1991/92), 33-41. Abstracted in the CMJ Media Highlights, 23 (1992), 443-444.

69. Bibliography For History Of Computing Babbage, Charles (17911871). Charles Babbage and his calculating engines; selectedwritings by Charles Babbage and others. Babbage, Charles (1791-1871). http://www.iit.edu/~misa/biblios/hist_computing.html

Bibliography for HISTORY OF COMPUTERS AND COMPUTING updated May 12, 2004 Thomas J. Misa Department of Humanities Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago IL 60616 Table of Contents Chronology: Surveys and Historiography Babbage and the Mechanical Vision The Analog Era The Digital Divide ... Networked World (1980-present) Topics and Institutions: MIT Silicon Valley Policy and International Studies SEE ALSO: History of Engineering Global Culture Military Microelectronics Books in IIT's Galvin Library are linked to the Library's computer catalogue: GALVIN WWW sites: Ada Project notable women in computing (at Yale) Annals of the History of Computing . (journal) GALVIN ON-LINE INDEX ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?puNumber=85 Computer Museum History Center IEEE History Center electrical engineering J.A.N. Lee's history of computing (at Virginia Tech) many files Charles Babbage Institute (at U Minn.) a leading center of computer history: its list of WWW sites its 2500-item Software History Bibliography www.stanford.edu/group/mmdd/SiliconValley/ Smithsonian's computer history collection www.ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/on-line-docs.html

70. Charles Babbage Charles Babbage. 1. Near the northern pole of the moon there is a crater namedfor Charles Babbage. When he died in 1871, however, few people knew who he was. http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Babbage.html

Charles Babbage Born December 26, 1791 in Teignmouth, Devonshire UK, Died 1871, London; Known to some as the "Father of Computing" for his contributions to the basic design of the computer through his Analytical machine. His previous Difference Engine was a special purpose device intended for the production of tables. While he did produce prototypes of portions of the Difference Engine, it was left to Georg and Edvard Schuetz to construct the first working devices to the same design which were successful in limited applications. Significant Events in His Life: 1791: Born; 1810: Entered Trinity College, Cambridge; 1814: graduated Peterhouse; 1817 received MA from Cambridge; 1820: founded the Analytical Society with Herschel and Peacock; 1823: started work on the Difference Engine through funding from the British Government; 1827: published a table of logarithms from 1 to 108000; 1828: appointed to the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge (never presented a lecture); 1831: founded the British Association for the Advancement of Science; 1832: published "Economy of Manufactures and Machinery"; 1833: began work on the Analytical Engine; 1834: founded the Statistical Society of London; 1864: published Passages from the Life of a Philosopher; 1871: Died. Other inventions: The cowcatcher, dynamometer, standard railroad gauge, uniform postal rates, occulting lights for lighthouses, Greenwich time signals, heliograph opthalmoscope. He also had an interest in cyphers and lock-picking, but abhorred street musicians.

71. Babbage Charles Babbage. Born 26 Both the date and place of Charles Babbage sbirth were uncertain but have now been firmly established. In 1 http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Babbage.html

Charles Babbage Born: 26 Dec 1791 in London, England Died: 18 Oct 1871 in London, England Click the picture above to see six larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Both the date and place of Charles Babbage 's birth were uncertain but have now been firmly established. In [1] and [11], for example, his date of birth is given as 26 December 1792 and both give the place of his birth as near Teignmouth. Also in [17] it is stated:- Little is known of Mr Babbage's parentage and early youth except that he was born on December However, a nephew wrote to The Times a week after the obituary [17] appeared, saying that Babbage was born on 26 December 1791. There was little evidence to prove which was right until Hyman (see [7]) in 1975 found that Babbage's birth had been registered in St Mary's Newington, London on 6 January 1792. Babbage's father was Benjamin Babbage, a banker, and his mother was Betsy Plumleigh Babbage. Given the place that his birth was registered Hyman says in [7] that it is almost certain that Babbage was born in the family home of 44 Crosby Row, Walworth Road, London. Babbage suffered ill health as a child, as he relates in [3]:-

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@import url('/includes/tbenh.css') ; Home TV Radio Talk ... A-Z Index THURSDAY 3rd June 2004 Text only BBC Homepage History Topics ... Help Like this page? Send it to a friend! Charles Babbage (1791 - 1871) Babbage was a sickly child and initially received only a basic education. As a child he made shoes for walking on water: book covers tied to his feet in such a way that they opened when he put his foot down. However, he was most taken with algebra. By the time he went to Cambridge University he had read most of the standard, and some non-standard, texts. Shortly after graduation he was hired by the Royal Institution to lecture on calculus. Within two years he had been elected a member of the Royal Society and, with his Cambridge friends, was instrumental in setting up the Astronomical Society in 1820, the first to challenge the dominion of the Royal Society. The 1820s saw Babbage work on his 'Difference Engine', a machine that could perform some mathematical calculations to twenty decimal places. A six-wheeled model was initially constructed and demonstrated to a number of audiences. By this time, however, he had plans to construct a bigger, better, machine (Difference Engine 2), as well as a different machine altogether: the Analytical Engine - a forerunner of the modern digital computer. It was intended to be able to perform any arithmetical calculation using punched cards that would deliver the instructions, as well as a memory unit to store numbers and many other fundamental components of today's computers.

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74. ¿Quien Era Charles Babbage 1791 - 1871)? Translate this page ¿Quien era Charles Babbage (1791 – 1871)? Ingeniero y matemáticoinglés, diseñó parcialmente máquinas calculadoras. Precursor http://www.banrep.gov.co/blaavirtual/pregfrec/babbage.htm

Ingeniero y matemático inglés, diseñó parcialmente máquinas calculadoras. Precursor de la máquina universal de Turing. Cursó estudios en el Trinity College (Cambridge), cultivó, además, el análisis matemático. Contribuyó al desarrollo de las matemáticas en el Reino Unido, profundizando en el cálculo infinitesimal de Newton y en el cálculo diferencial e integral de Lacroix. Fue cofundador, junto con Herschel y Peacock, de la Sociedad Analítica (1812). Atraído por los temas de astronomía y mecánica, participó en la creación de la Sociedad de Astronomía (1820). También tuvo relación con la fundación de la Sociedad de Estadística (1824). A partir de una idea concebida en 1812, una década después comenzó la construcción de la máquina de diferencias . Con ella pretendía llevar el cálculo mecanizado mas allá de las corrientes aplicaciones administrativas y de contabilidad comercial. El prototipo que construyó en 1821, con capacidad para resolver polinomios de segundo grado, convenció al gobierno británico para concederle una subvención. Varias dificultades en la fabricación de las piezas impidieron culminar con éxito el proyecto. Babbage, en 1833, debió abandonar su proyecto de una nueva máquina de diferencias, la número 2. Al año siguiente, un ingeniero sueco, George Schutz, conoció casualmente un informe que exponía los progresos técnicos de Babbage. Scheutz, atraído por la experiencia se propuso continuarla por sí mismo, incorporó variantes en el diseño de algunas partes y logró finalizar su prototipo en 1840.

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Charles Babbage(1791 - 1871) Charles Babbage nació el 26 de diciembre de 1791 en Totnes, Devonshire (Inglaterra) en la época fascinadora y tumultuosa de la Revolución Francesa. El fue uno de los dos niños sobrevivientes de Benjamín Babbage, un banquero, y Beatriz Plumleigh Teape, ambos descendientes de dos bien conocidas familias de Devonshire. Cursó estudios en el Trinity College (Cambridge). Cultivó el análisis matemático y contribuyó al desarrollo de las matemáticas en el Reino Unido, profundizando en el cálculo infinitesimal de Newton y en el cálculo diferencial e integral de Lacroix. Fue cofundador, junto con Herschel y Peacock, de la Sociedad Analítica (1812), participó en la creación de la Sociedad de Astronomía (1820) y también tuvo relación con la fundación de la Sociedad de Estadística (1824). Babbage fue un genio un tanto excéntrico que heredó una considerable fortuna familiar. Fruto de sus excentricidades es ser el precursor de la Dedrocronología, ciencia que se ocupa del estudio de los árboles basándose en los anillos de sus troncos. Charles Babbage mostró un temprano interés en lo oculto. Mientras era todavía un niño una vez trató de probar la existencia del diablo por medio del dibujo de un círculo que hizo con su propia sangre en un piso del desván mientras recitaba una Oración al Señor. Sin resultados positivos en su experimento, el interés por lo sobrenatural continuó. Charles arregló con un amigo de su niñez que quien muriese primero aparecería al sobreviviente. Cuando su amigo murió a los 18 años de edad, Charles estuvo despierto toda la noche esperando una aparición que nunca vino. Aún en sus años de universidad, Charles formó un club de fantasmas para coleccionar apoyos de evidencias fiables en la existencia de lo sobrenatural.

76. Charles Babbage SO WHO WAS Charles Babbage? Charles Babbage was born on December 26, 1791 inTeignmouth , Devon, the son of a banker. HOW DID Charles Babbage DO THIS? http://www.zephyrus.co.uk/charlesbabbage.html

Home Page Biology Chemistry Physics ... Contact Us CHARLES BABBAGE (1791-1871) Charles Babbage SO WHO WAS CHARLES BABBAGE? Charles Babbage was born on December 26, 1791 in Teignmouth , Devon, the son of a banker. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge and became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1816. He was active in establishing the Analytical, the Royal Astronomical and the Statistical societies. In 1817 Babbage was awarded his MA. Charles Babbage is mainly known as the inventor of a machine known as the Analytical Machine. This machine has been widely recognised as a major contribution to the basic design of the computers we have today. However Charles Babbage was a man of considerable intellect and was responsible for many inventions in his lifetime. HOW DID CHARLES BABBAGE DO THIS? In 1822 he wrote to the President of the Royal Society setting down his plans for calculating and printing mathematical tables by machine. Unfortunately, in 1827 Babbage's wife Georgiana died at the young age of 35. Following this, he travelled across Europe and did not return until the end of 1828. By this time Babbage's grant had run out so he was financing the project himself and needed to approach the Government once more for funding. In 1829 some of Babbage's friends arranged for the Duke of Wellington, the Prime Minister, to see a model of the Difference Engine. Wellington must have been impressed with what he saw, as he awarded Babbage a further grant of £3 000. The engineer Joseph Clement was hired to construct the engine. However, Babbage was to come into serious conflict with Clement, when, in 1830 Clement refused to move the engine from his premises to Babbage's new workshop. Babbage accused Clement of making "inordinately extravagant demands" and refused to give Clement any more money. This resulted in Clement stopping work and dismissing his workers. Development of the Difference Engine ground to a halt.

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Bright Sparcs Biographical entry Home Browse Search Previous ... Next Babbage, Charles (1791 - 1871) Archival/Heritage Sources Mathematician and Inventor Born: 1791 England. Died: 1871. Babbage played a major role in the reformation of British mathematics; invented two Difference Engines and an Analytical Engine which is now regarded as the first programmable computer. Structure based on ISAAR(CPF) - click here for an explanation of the fields Created: 21 December 2001 Modified: 3 September 2003 Published by Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre on ASAPWeb Originally published 1994-1999 by Australian Science Archives Project Submit any comments, questions, corrections and additions Prepared by: Acknowledgements Updated: 30 March 2004 http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P004109b.htm Top of page Bright Sparcs Home Browse Search

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Bright Sparcs Archival and Heritage Sources Home Browse Search Previous ... Next Babbage, Charles (1791 - 1871) Biographical entry Powerhouse Museum [Repository details] Title: Charles Babbage - Records Reference: Date Range: Description: Includes: correspondence to Charles Babbage, 1830-1870; publications, 1830-1869; and miscellaneous papers, 1880-1991. Quantity: 0.1 m Title: Charles Babbage - Records Reference: Date Range: Description: Difference Engine No1, designed by Charles Babbage and assembled by Henry Provost Babbage and Joseph Clement, England, 1822-1879; includes two pages of hand written instructions. Quantity: 0.3 m Title: Charles Babbage - Records Reference: Date Range: Description: Papers of Charles Babbage and other family members, including: correspondence to Charles Babbage, 1826-1894; publications by Charles Babbage, 1826-1846; publications relating to Charles Babbage, 1857-1908; photograph album, 1860-1890; and Stuart Barton Babbage's scrapbook, 1933. Quantity: 0.6 m Access: Available for reference Top of Page Published by Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre on ASAPWeb Originally published 1994-1999 by Australian Science Archives Project Submit any comments, questions, corrections and additions

79. Babbage Charles Babbage. 1791 1871. Have you ever heard the expression, is ahead of his time. ? This means a person has an idea that http://www.math.wichita.edu/history/men/babbage.html

Charles Babbage Have you ever heard the expression, "... is ahead of his time. " ? This means a person has an idea that is far beyond the ability of all his friends to understand at the time the idea came up. This is what happened to a man named Charles Baggage The son of a banker, Charles Babbage was born on December 26, 1791 in Devonshire, United Kingdom. At the age of 19, he entered Trinity College at Cambridge University. Soon he became very frustrated by the number of errors he found in the mathematics tables he was required to use in his math classes. Determined to correct this, Babbage committed his energies to building a machine which would calculate the facts needed and do them correctly. This machine he called the Difference Engine. So, in 1822, he went to the British government and requested a grant to finance the building of this machine. He was given a partial grant in 1823 and instructed to begin immediately. However, it's unfortunate no one kept minutes of this agreement, because, in 1828, when Babbage returned for additional funds, no official could remember the original agreement. Being an incredibly stubborn man, he financed the project himself for a year while he continued to ask the government for funding. He got his wish in 1830.

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