Charles Babbage:- (26 December 1791-18 Oct 1871) was an English mathematician, analytical,philosopher, mechanical engineer and computer scientist. He is best the person come up with the idea of a computer that could be programmed. Unfinished parts of his mechanism are on display om the London Science Museum..
Charles Babbage was born in England at 44 Crosby Row. Walworth Road, :London Babbage father Benjamin Babbage was a banker in London who owned the Bitton Estate in Telgnmouth, His mother was Belsy Plumleigh Babbage. In 1808 the Babbage family moved into the old Rowdens house in East Telgnmouth. His Brain is also on display in the Science Museum in London.
Babbage's engines were among the first mechanical computers. His engines were not actually completed because he did not have enough money. Babbage realized that a machine could do the work better and more reliably than a human being. Babbage controlled building of some steam-powered machines that more or less did their job; calculations could be mechanized to an extent
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