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Charles Babbage: The Pioneer Of The Computer
Introduction to College Algebra
Charles Babbage, the British mathematician and inventor, was born December 26, 1791 in Teignmouth, Devonshire UK. He was the son of a Tory banker - Benjamin (Old Five Percent) Babbage. He designed and built mechanical computing machines on pr ....
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.... work on the Analytical Engine. In 1834 he founded the Statistical Society of London. Thirty years later, in 1864 Babbage published “Passages from the Life of a Philosopher” and then in 1871 he died in London.
During his life, Charles Babbage also invented the cowcatcher, dynamometer, standard railroad gauge, uniform postal rates, occulting lights for lighthouses, Greenwich time signals, and the heliograph opthalmoscope. He also had an interest in cyphers and lock picking, but abhorred street musicians.
Near the northern pole of the moon there is a crater named for Charl ....
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