Charles Babbage Inventions
- By 1820 and 30's- Invented the Difference Engine, an early computer, a calculating machine.
- 1820- Charles Babbage invented a small machine to compute the table of squares.
- 1827- Charles Babbage published a table of logarithms from 1 to 1080000.
- Mid-1830's - Babbage developed plans for the Analytical Engine, first digital computer.
- 1851- Charles Babbage suggested the germ of the coronagraph for a solar eclipse.
- 19th-century- Charles Babbage designed a printer for the second Difference Engine which supported line-wrapping
- Late 19th-century- Invented a replica of the Difference Engine.
CHARLES BABBAGE MECHANICAL COMPUTER
Charles Babbage created the first mechanical computer which later it led to different designs. That is the reason why he is called "The Father of the Computer." He hated doing calculations by hand so he wanted to come up with a machine that would solve this problem. He wanted to build a machine that could benefit others as well. In 1812, he said- "I wish to God these calculations had been performed by steam." In 1822, Babbage proposed building a machine called the Different Engine that could calculate tables automatically. Charles kept on working on this engine and then he came up with Analytical Engine or Analytical Steam Engine because it was planned that it was going to be powered by steam. The main difference between the two engines is that the Analytical Engine could be programmed using punched cards. The Analytical Engine could make decisions based on the results of previous computations. It could also perform several features used in modern computers like sequential control, branching and looping. Charles worked on his Analytical Engine until he died and sadly he did not finish. This invention is now displayed at the London Science Museum.