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Charles Babbage
Father of the Computer; designed the first mechanical general-purpose computer
England ๐ฌ๐ง 1837 Pioneers & Inventors
Key Facts
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Designed the Difference Engine (1822) and Analytical Engine (1837) โ first concept of a programmable computer
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The Analytical Engine had a "store" (memory), "mill" (CPU), and punch-card input โ remarkably modern in design
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Never completed in his lifetime; a working model was built by the Science Museum London in 2002 from his original plans
๐ก Did you know? Babbage's Analytical Engine design contained every element of a modern computer โ 150 years before one was built
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๐ฌ๐ง England
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