He continued to work on designs and revisions for his engines until his death on October 18, 1871, at the age of 79. While Charles Babbage's life was marked by frustration over the incomplete ...

English engineer Charles Babbage (1791-1871 ... who continued his father's work after he died in 1871. Before his passing, in 1854 Swedish inventor Georg Scheutz successfully built a machine ...

A programmable calculator designed by British scientist Charles Babbage ... a trial model was finally built in 1871, the year Babbage died. Although never completed, it was a major advance ...