Charles Babbage (26 Dez 1791 Jahr – 18 Okt 1871 Jahr)

Beschreibung:

- Babbage asked the question, "why can't physical machines also do mental work?" This completely revolutionized history because until then, the definition of a computer was a PERSON who did complex calculations, not a MACHINE.

- He designed the first mechanical comptuer, the analytical machine. While it wasn't actually built, it was still designed, and the first general-purpose comptuer to be built.

- Not only this, Babbage's computer also ran an algorithim, a code or a program so to say. Made by Ada Lovelace, her work done on Babbage's machine would go onto create the subfield of Scientific Computing.