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Charles Babbage (1791–1871) was a Cambridge mathematician, Lucasian professor like Newton before him, who grew frustrated with the errors in printed mathematical tables and set out to build a machine to calculate them. His Difference Engine, and then his more ambitious Analytical Engine, programmed with punched cards, anticipated the computer by a century.
Neither was finished in his lifetime, but Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, wrote notes on the Analytical Engine that included the first published computer program. He also wrote on industry in On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures and told his own story in Passages from the Life of a Philosopher.
- Passages from the Life of a PhilosopherCharles Babbage
- On the Economy of Machinery and ManufacturesCharles Babbage
- Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its CausesCharles Babbage
- The calculating engineCharles Babbage
- The exposition of 1851Charles Babbage
- Table of logarithms of the natural numbers, from 1 to 108000Charles Babbage
- Table of logarithms of the natural numbers from 1 to 108,000Charles Babbage
- A letter to Sir Humphry Davy, bart. ... on the application of machinery to the purpose of calculating and printing mathematical tablesCharles Babbage
- Advertisements
- An examination ofsome questions connected with games of chanceCharles Babbage
- The ninth Bridgewater treatise. A fragment.Charles Babbage
- The exposition of 1851; : or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government, of EnglandCharles Babbage
- A comparative view of the various institutions for the assurance of lives.Charles Babbage
- Ueber maschinen- und fabrikenwesenCharles Babbage
- On the economy of machinery and manufactures.Charles Babbage
- An essay towards the calculus of functionsCharles Babbage
- Observations on the temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli near Naples; with an attempt to explain the causes of the frequent elevation and depressioCharles Babbage
- On the economy of manufacturesCharles Babbage
- Table of the logarithms of the natural numbers, from 1 to 108000. By Charles Babbage ... SterotypedCharles Babbage
- Science economique des manufactures traduite de l'anglais par M. IsoardCharles Babbage
- The "Phat boy's" 15 years on the St. Lawrence : the people met and the things seen : a guide for tourists and travelersCharles Babbage
- Économie des machines et des manufactures d'aprés l'ouvrage anglais de Ch. Babbage ... par Ch. LaboulayeCharles Babbage
- Traité sur l'économie des machines et des manufacturesCharles Babbage
- Thoughts on the principles of taxation, with reference to a property tax, and its exceptions. By Charles Babbage, esqCharles Babbage
- The "Phat boy's" 16 years on the St. LawrenceCharles Babbage
- The "Phat boy's" 17 years on the St. LawrenceCharles Babbage
- The "Phat boy's" 18 years on the St. LawrenceCharles Babbage
- The phat boy's delineations of the St. LawrenceCharles Babbage
- The "Phat boy's" 15 years on the St. LawrenceCharles Babbage
- The Phat boy's racy description of the St. Lawrence river and its environs. A guide for the tourist and travelerCharles Babbage
- Table of the logarithms of the natural numbers from 1 to 108000Charles Babbage
- Thoughts on the principles of taxation, with reference to a property tax and its exceptionsCharles Babbage
- Examples of the solutions of functional equationsCharles Babbage
- The Phat boy's delineations of the St. Lawrence River and its environs a guide for the tourist and traveler : making a round trip from New YCharles Babbage
- The "Phat Boy's" 16 years on the St. Lawrence the people met and the things seen : a guide for tourists and travelersCharles Babbage
- The Phat boy's delineations of the St. Lawrence River and its environs a guide for the tourist and traveler, from Niagara Falls, through LakCharles Babbage
- The Phat boy's delineations of the St. Lawrence River and its environs a guide for tourist and traveler, making a round trip from New York, Charles Babbage
- The Phat boy's racy description of the St. Lawrence River and its environs a guide for the tourist and traveler, making a round trip from NeCharles Babbage
- On electric and magnetic rotationsCharles Babbage
- A magistrate's handbook : being an abstract (on the pattern of the schedule annexed to Act XXV) of the Criminal Law of the Bengal PresidencyCharles Babbage