son of the famed astronomer William Herschel, Babbage helped found the Analytical Society. Like the Lunar Society in the days of Josiah Wedgwood and Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles), two ...

English engineer Charles Babbage (1791-1871 ... Babbage never completed any of his designs and nor did his son, Henry Prevost Babbage, who continued his father's work after he died in 1871.

A programmable calculator designed by British scientist Charles Babbage. After his Difference Engine failed its test in 1833, Babbage started the design of the Analytical Engine in 1834.

Do you remember Charles Babbage from the first chapter of your earliest computer textbooks? This brilliant mathematician, philosopher, inventor, and mechanical engineer whose visionary ideas gave ...