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Charles Babbage is often called the "father of computing" for his detailed plans for mechanical Calculating Engines, both the table-making Difference Engines (1821) and the far more ambitious Analytical Engines (1837), which were flexible and powerful, punched-card controlled general purpose calculators, embodying many features which later reappeared in the modern computer.
WORDS OF WISDOM:"One of Babbage's most serious flaws was his inability to stop tinkering. No sooner would he send a drawing to the machine shop than he would find a better way to perform the task and would order work stopped until he had finished pursuing the new line. By and large this flaw kept Babbage from ever finishing anything." - Joel Shurkin stated:in his book Engines of the Mind
HOW IT WORKS:
How the Analytical Engine works. This site is developed and maintained by John Walker, founder of Autodesk, Inc. and co-author of AutoCAD software.In 1985 the Science Museum of London launched a project to build a complete Babbage Engine as originally designed, to explore the practical viability of Babbage’s schemes.
DID YOU KNOW?
Around age eight Charles Babbage was sent to a country school to recover from a life-threatening fever. His parents ordered that his "brain was not to be taxed too much"
On the moon, there is a crater bearing Babbage's name.
The Charles Babbage Foundation is named in his honor in recognition of his intellectual contributions and their influence on the modern computing world.

http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/babbage.htm