| Mr Babbage and Mr Clement had a big disagreement and quarrelled over money. |
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| Babbage had been convinced that his work demonstrated the argument from design and that the world operated as a great calculating-machine, programmed by God. |
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| Herschel found the method impressive, Babbage knew of it, and it was later noted by Ada Lovelace as compatible with the analytical engine. |
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| Nine years later, in 2000, the Science Museum completed the printer Babbage had designed for the difference engine. |
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| Due to his association with the town Babbage was chosen in 2007 to appear on the 5 Totnes pound note. |
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| There is a black plaque commemorating the 40 years Babbage spent at 1 Dorset Street, London. |
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| Babbage was never able to complete construction of any of his machines due to conflicts with his chief engineer and inadequate funding. |
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| Babbage developed some two dozen programs for the Analytical Engine between 1837 and 1840, and one program later. |
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| In 1842, the Italian mathematician Luigi Federico Menabrea published a description of the engine based on a lecture by Babbage in French. |
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| Babbage is not known to have written down an explicit set of instructions for the engine in the manner of a modern processor manual. |
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| Ada Lovelace, notable in her own right, collaborated with Charles Babbage on the analytical engine, a predecessor to modern computers. |
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| A precocious mathematician, Babbage was already well versed in the Continental mathematical notations when he went up to Cambridge. |
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| Essinger describes the intellectual curiosity and acumen that led Babbage to invent this machine, which could be programmed using punch cards. |
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| Babbage was one of four children of Benjamin Babbage and Betsy Plumleigh Teape. |
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| In 1808, the Babbage family moved into the old Rowdens house in East Teignmouth. |
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| The second was an Oxford tutor, under whom Babbage reached a level in Classics sufficient to be accepted by Cambridge. |
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| In 1819, Babbage and Herschel visited Paris and the Society of Arcueil, meeting leading French mathematicians and physicists. |
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| Babbage did calculate actuarial tables for that scheme, using Equitable Society mortality data from 1762 onwards. |
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| Babbage and Herschel were asked to oversee a trial project, to recalculate some part of those tables. |
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| This was in 1821 or 1822, and was the occasion on which Babbage formulated his idea for mechanical computation. |
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| Herschel and Babbage were present at a celebrated operation of that survey, the remeasuring of the Lough Foyle baseline. |
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| From 1828 to 1839 Babbage was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge. |
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| On the front of the Royal Society Babbage had no impact, with the bland election of the Duke of Sussex to succeed Gilbert the same year. |
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| The Mechanics' Magazine in 1831 identified as Declinarians the followers of Babbage. |
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| This Section was the sixth, established in 1833 with Babbage as chairman and John Elliot Drinkwater as secretary. |
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| Babbage represented his work as largely a result of actual observations in factories, British and abroad. |
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| What Babbage remarked is that skilled workers typically spend parts of their time performing tasks that are below their skill level. |
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| Babbage took the unpopular line, from the publishers' perspective, of exposing the trade's profitability. |
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| The Babbage principle is an inherent assumption in Frederick Winslow Taylor's scientific management. |
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| In this work Babbage weighed in on the side of uniformitarianism in a current debate. |
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| Babbage put forward the thesis that God had the omnipotence and foresight to create as a divine legislator. |
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| Like Samuel Vince, Babbage also wrote a defense of the belief in divine miracles. |
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| Here again Babbage is considered a pioneer, with Henry Maudslay, William Sellers, and Joseph Whitworth. |
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| Through the Royal Society Babbage acquired the friendship of the engineer Marc Brunel. |
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| It was through Brunel that Babbage knew of Joseph Clement, and so came to encounter the artisans whom he observed in his work on manufactures. |
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| Babbage also invented an ophthalmoscope, which he gave to Thomas Wharton Jones for testing. |
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| Babbage achieved notable results in cryptography, though this was still not known a century after his death. |
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| At Cambridge, Babbage saw the fallibility of this process, and the opportunity of adding mechanisation into its management. |
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| In works of the 1820s and 1830s, Babbage referred in detail to de Prony's project. |
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| Babbage began in 1822 with what he called the difference engine, made to compute values of polynomial functions. |
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| Although Babbage received ample funding for the project, it was never completed. |
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| A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage is best remembered for originating the concept of a digital programmable computer. |
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| After the attempt at making the first difference engine fell through, Babbage worked to design a more complex machine called the Analytical Engine. |
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| It aimed to improve British science, and more particularly to oust Davies Gilbert as President of the Royal Society, which Babbage wished to reform. |
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| Babbage also affected the economic thinking of John Stuart Mill. |
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| Babbage visited Turin in 1840 at the invitation of Giovanni Plana. |
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| It was during this period that Babbage tried to enter politics. |
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| Babbage was its public face, backed by Richard Jones and Robert Malthus. |
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| The Marree uranium project, located 550 kilometers north of Adelaide, comprises 5 Exploration Licences in the Eromanga Basin adjacent to the uranium rich Mount Babbage Inlier. |
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| The same year, Charles Babbage published Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes, which was deeply critical of the Society. |
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| A controversy Babbage had with Richard Jones lasted for six years. |
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