What he foresaw was a primitive computer ... and even the tools to make the parts. He . . . stands alone: the great ancestral figure of computing." Charles Babbage was born in 1791 to a Devonshire ...

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Do you remember Charles Babbage from the first chapter of your earliest computer textbooks ... programmed to solve a wide variety of problems, making it the conceptual ancestor of modern computers.

A programmable calculator designed by British scientist Charles Babbage. After his Difference ... contained the principles of the stored program computer. For example, it provided a conditional ...