The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20060616002258/http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk:80/~history/Mathematicians/Babbage.html

Charles Babbage

1791 - 1871

Click the picture above
to see seven larger pictures

Babbage originated the modern analytic computer. By 1834 he invented the principle of the analytical engine, the forerunner of the modern electronic computer.
Full MacTutor biography [Version for printing]
List of References (53 books/articles)

Some Quotations (8)

A Poster of Charles Babbage

Mathematicians born in the same country

Show birthplace location

Additional Material in MacTutor

  1. A picture of Babbage's difference engine
  2. Charles Babbage and deciphering codes
  3. Obituary: The Times

Honours awarded to Charles Babbage
(Click below for those honoured in this way)
Fellow of the Royal SocietyElected 1816
Fellow of the Royal Society of EdinburghElected 1820
1828
Lunar featuresCrater Babbage

Other Web sites
  1. NNDB
  2. Science Museum London
  3. Fourmilab (The analytical engine - including Menebrae's article)
  4. Jonathan Bowen
  1. Virginia Tech
  2. R A Hyman
  3. Gutenberg Project (Reflections on the Decline of Science in England)
 Previous  (Chronologically)  Next  Main Index
 Previous  (Alphabetically)  Next  Biographies index
JOC/EFR � October 1998

The URL of this page is:
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Babbage.html