Charles Babbage: The Pioneer Of The Computer

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logarithms from 1 to 108000. In 1828 he was appointed to the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge, though he never presented a lecture. He founded the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1831 and in 1832 he published "Economy of Manufactures and Machinery". 1833 marked the beginning of his work on the Analytical Engine. In 1834 he founded the Statistical Society of London. Thirty years later, in 1864 Babbage published “Passages from the Life of a Philosopher” and then in 1871 he died in London.
During his life, Charles Babbage also invented the cowcatcher, dynamometer, standard railroad gauge, uniform postal rates, occulting lights for lighthouses, Greenwich time signals, and the heliograph opthalmoscope. He also had an interest in cyphers and lock picking, but abhorred street musicians.
Near the northern pole of the moon there is a crater named for Charles Babbage. When he died in 1871, however, few people knew who he was. Only one carriage (the Duchess ...

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