He is Charles Babbage, the man who more than 150 years ago first faintly glimpsed today's computer age and strove to reach it. The Difference Engine is a calculator. It prepares numerical tables ...

Charles Babbage 17911871 computer pioneer designed the first automatic computing engines He invented computers but failed to build them The first complete Babbage Engine was completed in London in ...

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.

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 ...