Charles Babbage (1792-1871)

Charles Babbage
Resigned as professor of Mathematics at Cambridge to work on designing a mechanical calculating machine.
Despite the invention of logarithms, the need for accurate and complicated calculations had outgrown the existing simple machines,
such as the Abacus.
Babbage's aim was to use sets of gears that moved each other to produce columns of figures.
These figures would then be printed out automatically.
His difference Engine, as he called it, was never finished,
but the beautifully-machined parts can be seen in the Science Museum, London.
He abandoned it for the Analytical Engine, Which was intended to solve algebraic problems as well as do direct calculations,
but he could not find enough money to complete it. He is now respected as a computing pioneer born before his time.

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