# Charles Babbage

> He sketched the blueprint for the programmable computer in the 1830s — gears, levers, and punch-card logic — a century before anyone built one that worked.

*English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** United Kingdom
- **Born:** 1791-12-26
- **Died:** 1871-10-18
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Charles Babbage was born in England on 26 December 1791, a mathematician and mechanical engineer whose range stretched from philosophy to industrial economics. In the early 19th century he invented the Difference Engine, the first mechanical computer, then went further: his Analytical Engine laid out every core idea of modern computing, including programmable memory borrowed from the Jacquard loom's punch cards. He also designed the first computer printers and hosted Saturday evening soirées that made him a fixture of London's scientific social scene, credited with importing the "scientific soirée" format from France. Babbage died on 18 October 1871 with neither engine fully built, but in 1991 a team constructed a working Difference Engine from his original plans — proving the 19th-century design would have run.

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