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	Charles Babbage
		Charles Babbage was born in Devonshire in 1791.
		Babbage argued that miracles were not, as Hume write, violations of laws of nature, but could exist in a mechanistic world.
		Babbage's unflagging fascination with statistics occasionally overwhelmed him, as is seen in the animation of his Smithsonian proposal.
	ei.cs.vt.edu /~history/Babbage.html (3782 words)

	Charles Babbage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		From 1828 to 1839 Babbage was Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge.
		Babbage's discovery was used to aid English military campaigns, and was not published until several years later; as a result credit for the development was instead given to Friedrich Kasiski, who made the same discovery some years after Babbage.
		Babbage once counted all the broken panes of glass of a factory, publishing in 1857 a "Table of the Relative Frequency of the Causes of Breakage of Plate Glass Windows": 14 of 464 were caused by "drunken men, women or boys".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Babbage (1844 words)

	Charles Babbage - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Charles Babbage (December 26 1791 – October 18 1871) was an English mathematician, analytical philosopher and (proto-) computer scientist who originated the idea of a programmable computer.
		Charles Babbage was born in London on December 26, 1791, most likely at 44 Crosby Row, Walworth Road, London.
		Babbage spent much of the later part of his life tinkering with designs for the analytical engine, but for various reasons including funding problems and personality issues (but not, apparently, any insurmountable technical obstacles) only small fragments of the machine were ever completed.
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	Charles Babbage Page
		Babbage argued that miracles were not violations of laws of nature, but could exist in a mechanistic world.
		Babbage thought the table would be 'of value in many respects', and might 'induce others to furnish more extensive collections of similar and related facts'.
		Babbage loved practical science, and was among the first to apply higher mathematics to certain commercial and industrial problems.
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	Charles Babbage - MSN Encarta
		Charles Babbage (1792-1871), British mathematician and inventor, who designed and built mechanical computing machines on principles that anticipated the modern electronic computer.
		Babbage was born in Teignmouth, Devonshire, and was educated at the University of Cambridge.
		Babbage started to build his Difference Engine, but was unable to complete it because of a lack of funding.
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		Charles Babbage (December 26, 1791- October 18, 1871) was an English mathematician and (proto-)computer scientist who was the first person to come up with the idea of a computer.
		Between 1833 and 1842, Babbage tried again; this time, he tried to build a machine that would be programmable to do any kind of calculation, not just ones relating to polynomial equations.
		Partly through Babbage's efforts at gearmaking for these machines, the British had superior machinery for the next few decades, and this contributed to the superiority of the British navy in the first world war.
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	Charles Babbage: Tutte le informazioni su Charles Babbage su Encyclopedia.it (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Charles Babbage: Tutte le informazioni su Charles Babbage su Encyclopedia.it
		Charles Babbage (Teignmouth in Inghilterra 26 dicembre 1791 - Londra 1871) fu un matematico britannico.
		La "difference engine" fu realizzata con l'intento principale di effettuare i calcoli ripetitivi per realizzare e stampare le tavole logaritmiche necessarie a determinare la longitudine durante la navigazione, in modo da evitare i numerosi errori, di calcolo e di stampa, presenti nelle tavole numeriche dell'epoca.
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	Difference engine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Babbage went on to design his much more general analytical engine but later produced an improved difference engine design (his "Difference Engine No. 2") between 1847 and 1849.
		Inspired by Babbage's difference engine plans, Per Georg Scheutz built several difference engines from 1855 onwards; one was sold to the British government in 1859.
		Babbage's difference engine No. 2, finally built in 1991, could hold 7 numbers of 31 decimal digits each and could thus tabulate 7th degree polynomials to that precision.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Difference_engine (767 words)

	Charles Babbage - LoveToKnow 1911
		'CHARLES BABBAGE (1792-1871), English mathematician and mechanician, was born on the 26th of December 1792 at Teignmouth in Devonshire.
		Babbage's attention seems to have been very early drawn to the number and importance of the errors introduced into astronomical and other calculations through inaccuracies in the computation of tables.
		Government was induced to grant its aid, and the inventor himself spent a portion of his private fortune in the prosecution of his undertaking.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Charles_Babbage (454 words)

	Charles Babbage (1792 - 1871) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Babbage was something of a zealot in the cause of mathematical accuracy - this was a man who once wrote to poet Alfred Lord Tennyson and demanded he change the lines: "Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born" to "Every moment dies a man, Every moment one and one-sixteenth is born".
		Babbage's drawings and plans still exist - parts of the original mill and printer were even built, years later, by his son (and now reside in the PowerHouse Museum in Sydney) - but the Analytical Engine itself never saw the light of day.
		Charles Babbage watched as the Scheutz Difference Engine took out a gold medal at the Exhibition of Paris and, a few years later, was commissioned for the Registrar-General's Department of the same government that had abandoned his original research.
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	Charles Babbage
		Charles Babbage was born on December 26, 1791 in Teignmouth, Devon, the son of a banker.
		Charles Babbage is mainly known as the inventor of a machine known as the Analytical Machine.
		Babbage was also responsible for the invention of: the standard railroad gauge, the cowcatcher, occulting lights for lighthouses, Greenwich time signals, the dynometer and the heliograph ophthalmoscope.
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	Charles Babbage Institute: EXHIBITS > Who was Charles Babbage? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Babbage is sometimes referred to as "father of computing." The Charles Babbage Foundation took his name to honor his intellectual contributions and their relation to modern computers.
		Charles Babbage was born in London on December 26, 1791, the son of Benjamin Babbage, a London banker.
		Babbage occupied the Lucasian chair of mathematics at Cambridge from 1828 to 1839.
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	Science Museum \| Babbage \| Charles Babbage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Charles Babbage was born in Walworth, Surrey, on 26 December 1791.
		Babbage pioneered lighthouse signalling, proposed ‘fl box’ recorders for monitoring the conditions preceding railway catastrophes, advocated decimal currency and the use of tidal power once coal reserves were exhausted.
		Babbage designed an apparatus called a Difference Engine so-called because of the mathematical principle on which it was based — the method of finite differences.
	www.sciencemuseum.org.uk /on-line/babbage/page2.asp (448 words)

	Babbage biography
		Woodhouse was one of Babbage's teachers at Cambridge yet he seems to have taken no part in the Society that Babbage was to set up to try to bring the modern continental mathematics to Cambridge.
		Babbage had moved from Trinity College to Peterhouse and it was from that College that he graduated with a B.A. in 1814.
		Babbage was clearly strongly influenced by de Prony's major undertaking for the French Government of producing logarithmic and trigonometric tables with teams of people to carry out the calculations.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Biographies/Babbage.html (2878 words)

	Science Museum \| Babbage \| Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Charles Babbage (1791-1871) is widely regarded as the first computer pioneer and the great ancestral figure in the history of computing.
		Babbage excelled in a variety of scientific and philosophical subjects though his present-day reputation rests largely on the invention and design of his vast mechanical calculating engines.
		However, there is no direct line of descent from Babbage’s work to the modern electronic computer invented by the pioneers of the electronic age in the late 1930s and early 1940s largely in ignorance of the detail of Babbage's work.
	www.sciencemuseum.org.uk /on-line/babbage/index.asp (286 words)

	System Toolbox
		Babbage is said to have complained to his colleague that he wished these calculations could be carried out by steam.
		Babbage's first attempt at a calculating machine took the form of a small six-wheeled model that took advantage of number differences to aid in complex calculations.
		As Babbage worked on the project he was constantly discovering more efficient ways to accomplish his goals and overcome the problems with precision machining that hampered his progress.
	www.systemtoolbox.com /article.php?articles_id=43 (2466 words)

	The Digital Research Initiative
		Babbage made several important contributions in other areas: he wrote a consumer guide to life assurance; pioneered lighthouse signaling; scattered technical ideas and inventions in magnificent profusion; developed mathematical code breaking; and made important contributions to the field of political economics.
		Babbage was from the newtonian school of thought and believed that once all things where explained, all things could be predicted.
		Babbage was not familiar with concepts of heat propagation, nor was he knowledgeable on the efforts made by colleagues on heat and mechanical energy.
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	Charles Babbage
		Charles Babbage was born in London on December 26, 1792 (3), the son of Benjamin Babbage, a London banker.
		As a youth Babbage was his own instructor in algebra, of which he was passionately fond, and was well-read in the continental mathematics of his day.
		Babbage occupied the Lucasian chair of mathematics at Cambridge from 1828 to 1839.
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	Charles Babbage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Born on December 26, 1791 in London, Babbage's only formal schooling as a child as opposed to tutors was in a small school of thirty other children in Enfield, a small town north of London.
		Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace were a century ahead of their time.
		Babbage is considered to be the pioneer of the first computer while Ada Lovelace wrote his programs.
	www.bavidge.co.uk /charles_babbage.htm (500 words)

	Great creation scientist
		Charles Babbage was born on December 26, 1791.
		Charles devoted much of his working life to developing machines that would accurately calculate and print mathematical and astronomical tables so that errors could be eliminated.
		Babbage's inventions and his research techniques played a significant role in the development of Britain's industrial technology in an era when Britain was emerging as the industrial leader of the world.
	www.answersingenesis.org /creation/v18/i2/babbage.asp (1434 words)

	Lemelson-MIT Program
		Babbage helped found the Astronomical Society in 1820, and it was at that time that he first became interested in calculating machinery.
		Babbage, like Isaac Newton, believed there was a distinct order to the universe, that basically once all things were quantified, all things could be predicted.
		And today, the Charles Babbage Foundation is named in his honor in recognition of his intellectual contributions and their influence on the modern computing world.
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	The Babbage Pages: Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Charles Babbage was one of the key figures of a great era of British history.
		Babbage's greatest achievement was his detailed plans for Calculating Engines, both the table-making Difference Engines and the far more ambitious Analytical Engines, which were flexible and powerful, punched-card controlled general purpose calculaters, embodying many features which later reappeared in the modern stored program computer.
		Babbage gave a highly original discussion of the division of labour, which was followed by John Stuart Mill.
	www.projects.ex.ac.uk /babbage/biograph.html (733 words)

	Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
		Charles Babbage was an astonishingly original and innovative thinker in Victorian Britain.
		Miracles were not, argued Babbage, evidence of the succession of natural laws, but might merely be evidence of a higher or greater law of which we had heretofore been ignorant.
		Charles Babbage pages by C.J.D. Roberts- includes a wealth of primary sources.
	www.victorianweb.org /science/babbage.html (765 words)

	Inventor Charles Babbage Biography
		Charles Babbage is often called the "father of computing" for his detailed plans for mechanical Calculating Engines, both the table-making Difference Engines (1821) and the far more ambitious Analytical Engines (1837), which were flexible and powerful, punched-card controlled general purpose calculators, embodying many features which later reappeared in the modern computer.
		Charles Babbage is widely regarded as the first computer pioneer and the great ancestral figure in the history of computing.
		The Charles Babbage Foundation is named in his honor in recognition of his intellectual contributions and their influence on the modern computing world.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventors/babbage.htm (3198 words)

	History of Computing Science: Charles Babbage
		Charles Babbage (1791-1871), often referred to as the "Father of Computing" for his contributions to the development of the computer, seemed to have a rather ordinary childhood.
		With respect to the field of philosophy and religion, Babbage found beauty in the orderliness to be found within man, nature, and inventions.
		He was especially fond of the idea of constructing tables containing standardized measurements for things such as the length a bovine breath, or the time it takes for a pig's heart to beat.
	www.eingang.org /Lecture/babbage.html (177 words)

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