BABBAGE, CHARLES

băbˈĭj, 1792–1871, English mathematician and inventor. He devoted most of his life and expended much of his private fortune and a government subsidy in an attempt to perfect a mechanical calculating machine that foreshadowed present-day machines. He was a founder of the Royal Astronomical Society. He wrote Tables of Logarithms (1827) and an autobiography (1864).

See biographies by M. Moseley (1970) and D. Halacy (1970).

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The Letters of Charles Dickens - Vol. 3
Book by Madeline House, Graham Storey, Kathleen Tillotson, Charles Dickens, Noel C. Peyrouton; Clarendon Press, 1974
Subjects: Dickens, Charles--1812-1870
THE LETTERS OF CHARLES DICKENS Charles Dickens in 1842 From the bust by Henry Dexter THE PILGRIM EDITION The Letters of Charles Dickens Volume Three 1842-1843 EDITED BY Madeline House...
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Charles Sanders Peirce: Contributions to "The Nation" - Vol. 3
Book by Charles Sanders Peirce, Kenneth Laine Ketner, James Edward Cook; Texas Tech University, 1979
Subjects: Peirce, Charles S--(Charles Sanders)--1839-1914
...STUDIES TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY Charles Sanders Peirce: Contributions to The...Harold E. Dregne, Leslie C. Drew, Charles S. Hardwick, Ray C. Janeway, Walter R. McDonald, George F. Meenaghan, Charles W. Sargent, and J. Dalton Tarwater...
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Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: The Afterlife of the Nineteenth Century in Postmodern Culture
Book by Jay Clayton; Oxford University Press, 2003
Subjects: Criticism--United States--History--20th Century, Dickens, Charles--1812-1870--Appreciation--United States, English Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, English Literature--Appreciation--United States, Great Britain--Civilization--19th Century, Literature And Science--Great Britain, Literature And Science--United States, Postmodernism (Literature)--United States, Romanticism--Great Britain, United States--Civilization--20th Century, United States--Civilization--British Influences
...Nineteenth Century Babbage and Lovelace in The...Index 259 CHARLES DICKENS IN CYBERSPACE...nineteenth-century figures such as Charles Babbage, Samuel Bentham, Isambard...general learning such as Charles Babbage and Joseph Paxton. These...
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Charles Darwin and the Evolution Revolution
Book by Rebecca Stefoff; Oxford University Press, 1996
Subjects: Darwin, Charles--1809-1882--Juvenile Literature, Naturalists--England--Biography--Juvenile Literature
...parties at the home of the celebrated mathematician Charles Babbage, where the scientific elite mingled with fashionable...adventure: marriage. He drew up a list of the advan- Charles Lyell, founder of f the science ofgeology, was one...
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Charles Dickens
Book by Una Pope-Hennessy; Howell, Soskin, 1946
Subjects: Dickens, Charles--1812-1870
Charles Dickens CHARLES DICKENS, AGED 25 by Samuel Laurence Charles Dickens By UNA POPE-HENNESSY New York HOWELL, SOSKIN, PUBLISHERS, INC. To RICHARD Copyright, 1946, by Una Pope-Hennessy ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Manufactured entirely...
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The Flute Factory: An Empirical Measurement of the Effect of the Division of Labor on Productivity and Production Cost
Journal article by Andrew West; American Economist, Vol. 43, 1999
Subjects: Babbage, Charles--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Division of labor--Economic aspects, Industrial productivity--Economic aspects, Smith, Adam (Economist)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...an 18th century pin factory. Charles Babbages book, On the Economy of Machinery...improve upon Adam Smith and Charles Babbages estimation of the effect that...Machinery and Manufactures, Charles Babbage uses personal observations of...
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The Dream Machine: Charles Babbage and His Imaginary Computers
Journal article by Louise Purbrick; Journal of Design History, Vol. 6, 1993
Subjects: Design--History
...Purbrick The Dream Machine: Charles Babbage and His Imaginary Computers...nineteenth century, in the work of Charles Babbage on a machine called a calculating...and it begins in 1812 when Charles Babbage had a dream. In his autobiography...
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Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: The Afterlife of the Nineteenth Century in Postmodern Culture
Journal article by Steven E. Jones; Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 36, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: The Afterlife of the Nineteenth Century in Postmodern Culture (Book)--Book reviews
...endlessly fascinating story of Ada Byron Lovelace and Charles Babbage, the mathematician (and poets daughter) and the inventor...called for and exemplified in the important and effective Charles Dickens in Cyberspace. A Review by Steven E. Jones Loyola...
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Charles K. Hyde. Riding the Roller Coaster: A History of the Chrysler Corporation
Journal article by Jeffrey R. Yost; Michigan Historical Review, Vol. 29, 2003
Subjects: Riding the Roller Coaster: a History of the Chrysler Corporation (Book)
...longstanding major corporations. Although some connections to the broader trade are left open, Hyde provides the foundation for future scholarly contributions to automotive history. Jeffrey R. Yost Charles Babbage Institute University of Minnesota
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A Complex Legacy
Journal article by Amy Villarejo; Afterimage, Vol. 27, 1999
Subjects: Art, Modern--20th century, Conceptual art--Exhibitions, Eames, Charles--Exhibitions, Eames, Ray--Exhibitions
...Eameses aquariums produced for the Charles Norton Lectures at Harvard), "Science...outmoded is the task, for example, of Babbage (1968), a film on the mechanical...Engine," invented by the Englishman Charles Babbage. To see in the variable motion...
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magazine articles on: Babbage Charles  - 31 results

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Pozzuoli's Pillars Revisited
Magazine article by Stephen Jay Gould; Natural History, Vol. 108, May 1999
Subjects: Architecture, Books, Geology, Lyell, Charles (1797-1875), Pozzuoli Italy
...In the early 1830s Charles Babbage, Lyells colleague and...fascinating colleague Charles Babbage (1791-1871), Lucasian...Babbage). Therefore, Babbage and the scientific community of Britain knew Charles Darwin only as a promising...
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It All Adds Up: Women in Math and Science
Magazine article by Jonnie Shawkey; Social Studies Review, Vol. 46, Fall 2006
Subjects: Learning, Parents & parenting, Programming languages, Studies, Women
...books and papers. Mary Somerville introduced Ada to Charles Babbage who was working on the earliest prototype of what are now computers. Ada worked with Babbage on his project. When his final project was published...
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The Search for Artificial Intelligence
Magazine article by Tom Bethell; The American Spectator, Vol. 39, July 2006
Subjects: Artificial intelligence, Children & youth, Computer science, History
...debutante in London in the 183Os, Ada was introduced to Charles Babbage, the Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge...the world chess champion, for example, the columnist Charles Krauthammer wrote: It seems to me obvious that machines...
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The Difference Engine
Magazine article by Gene Santoro; The Nation, Vol. 252, May 6, 1991
Subjects: Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...Gene Santoro In the 1830s, Charles Babbage, an English mathematician, conceived...predecessors was Blaise Pascal. But Babbages engine was the first that could...an alternative history in which Babbages analytical machine has become the...
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The Tramp of a Fly's Footstep or, the Shriek, Rattle, and Roar of a Victorian Sound Track
Magazine article by John M. Picker; American Scholar, Vol. 71, Spring 2002
Subjects: Auscultation--Appreciation, Microphones--Appreciation, Sound--Appreciation, United Kingdom
...modern philosopher" turns out to be Charles Babbage, a good friend of Dickens, and...referring to the ninth chapter of Babbages The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise...fragmentary poems of Byron and Shelley, Babbages contemporaries by birth. But it...
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A Tale of Two Engines Revived
Newspaper article by Carol Herman; The Washington Times, September 9, 2001
Subjects: Babbage, Charles
...luck and a different century, Charles Babbage, the groundbreaking inventor...preface to "The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First...illus. Photos, A) Above: Charles Babbage, circa 1849. Below: Difference...
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The Secret Lives of the Romantic Scientists; Botanising and Fornicating: Joseph Banks, as Portrayed by Joshua Reynolds
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), October 20, 2008
Subjects: Holmes, Richard, Scientists
...dear, even if the generation of scientists who wrought it were succeeded by number crunchers like John Herschel and Charles Babbage, and tidy naturalists like Darwin fodder for an altogether quieter image: that of the scientist as bookkeeper..
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Inspired by Inventors; Business and Finance Advice
Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), March 11, 2008
...Viennese accent" - and engineers - "everyone here thinks were oily rags" - and highlighted historical figures like Charles Babbage, who invented the earliest computer, Sir Christopher Cockerill, who never made any money from the hovercraft, and...
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E-BUSINESS: Father of Computing Is as Relevant Today; Alan Woodward Looks at How 'Software Factories' Are Set to Revolutionise Software
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), August 30, 2005
...scientist and mathematician, Charles Babbage (17911871). During his lifetime...despite his ultimate failure, Charles Babbage is regarded as the father of...alan.woodward@charteris.com Charles Babbage; Bill Gates and the enormous...
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The Fathers of Computing; Your Money
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), June 28, 2009
Subjects: Personal finance
The Fathers of Computing; Your Money. Byline: MELANIE WRIGHT CHARLES Babbage - a 19th Century English mathematician, philosopher and engineer - invented the mechanical computer. He also had the idea of programming...
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encyclopedia articles on: Babbage Charles  - 4 results

 
 
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Babbage, Charles
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BABBAGE, CHARLES bab ij, 1792 1871, English mathematician and inventor. He devoted most of his life and expended much of his private fortune...
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Calculator
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Monroe. At about the same time, W. T. Odhner of Russia constructed a machine using the same device as Baldwins. Charles Babbage , an English mathematician, and William S. Burroughs, an American inventor, also made important contributions to...
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Programming Language
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...for Ada Augusta, countess of Lovelace, biographer of Charles Babbage , developed in 1981 by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, are...one, FORTH, developed in 1970 by American astronomer Charles Moore, is used in scientific and industrial control...
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Computer
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Although the development of digital computers is rooted in the abacus and early mechanical calculating devices, Charles Babbage is credited with the design of the first modern computer, the "analytical engine," during the 1830s. American scientist...


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