English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
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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.
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 so…
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There are in the Exhibition some beautiful examples of such amongst the productions of other countries as well as of our own. They are made by the united labour of many women.
In the making both of lace and of statues, the to the artists can only be reduced by producing a larger number of them through more extended education.
Machinery of a very beautiful kind has been contrived for copying accurately, on a reduced or an enlarged scale, both medals and statues.
It is not uninteresting to observe in society the opinions of its different classes respecting honours conferred on science.
But a much graver charge attaches itself, if not to our clergy, certainly to those who have the distribution of ecclesiastical patronage.
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