Charles Babbage

Background

An English mathematician and inventor.

Contribution

Designed the Analytical Engine (from the 1830s), a mechanical general-purpose computer with a store, mill, and punched-card control — never fully built in his lifetime.

Associated inventions

• Programmable Computing

Collaborators & contemporaries

• Ada Lovelace
• Alan Turing
• Konrad Zuse

Sources & further reading

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• Science Museum Group Collection & topic articlesScience Museum Group (UK) · Museum
• Computer History Museum — exhibits & timelineComputer History Museum · Museum

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