Charles Babbage (dec 26, 1791 – oct 18, 1871)
Description:
- 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.
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Date:
dec 26, 1791
oct 18, 1871
~ 79 years