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.