Charles Babbage biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Charles Babbage

Author Name:

Charles Babbage

Born As:

Charles Babbage

Other Names:

Born:

26 Dec 1791

Died:

18 Oct 1871




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Inventor, mathematician and pioneer computer scientist                          
He originated the concept of a programmable computer.                                                                  
Mother Betsy Plumleigh Teape
Father Benjamin Babbage
Wife Georgiana Whitmore - eight children - but only three — Benjamin Herschel, Georgiana Whitmore, and Henry Prevost — made it to adulthood. Georgiana died in Worcester on 1 September 1827 - Charles' father, wife, and two sons died in 1827.                                                                  
Designed the first programmable computer.                                                                  
In Babbage’s time, numerical tables were calculated by humans called ‘computers,’ meaning "one who computes."