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Charles Babbage, Charles Babbage on the Principles and Development of the Calculator: And Other Seminal Writings, ed. by Philip Morrison and Emily Morrison (1961, reissued 1989), collects many of Babbage’s writings about the Analytical Engine and the Difference Engine as well as passages from his autobiography. Doron Swade, The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer (2001), by a historian at London’s Science Museum, tells the engaging story of Babbage and the first computing machine, with the help of numerous illustrations and photographs. Anthony Hyman, Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer (1985), details Babbage’s contributions to many areas of science and technology.
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| Anniversary information added. | Dec 22, 2025 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Oct 14, 2025 | ||
| Modified link of Web site: German Patent and Trademark Office - Charles Babbage. | Oct 09, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: German Patent and Trademark Office - Charles Babbage. | Jun 21, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Charles Babbage (PDF). | Feb 12, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC - Arts & Ideas - Charles Babbage and broadcasting the sea. | Dec 18, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: CiteSeerX - Charles Babbage?s Analytical Engine, 1838. | Oct 30, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The History of Economic Thought - Charles Babbage. | Sep 18, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Washington - Charles Babbage. | Jul 23, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: History of Retina - Charles Babbage. | May 30, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Feb 14, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Lemelson-MIT - Charles Babbage. | Oct 09, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: IEEE Computer Society - Charles Babbage. | Aug 13, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Minnesota - College of Science and Engineering - Who was Charles Babbage? | Jul 03, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Stanford University - Department of Physics - Charles Babbage: His Life and Contributions. | Mar 28, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: History Computer - Charles Babbage - Complete Biography, History and Inventions. | Apr 04, 2022 | ||
| Added material about the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine. | Dec 28, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Scientists - Biography of Charles Babbage. | Nov 14, 2019 | ||
| Media added. | Apr 11, 2017 | ||
| Media added. | Apr 07, 2017 | ||
| Discussion of Ada Lovelace's paper about the Analytical Engine and the construction of the Difference Engine's printer added. | Sep 12, 2016 | ||
| Added photograph of the Difference Engine. | Sep 12, 2016 | ||
| Added Charles Babbage on the Principles and Development of the Calculator: And Other Seminal Writings to the bibliography. | Sep 12, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Science Museum - Biography of Charles Babbage. | Oct 21, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Wolfram Research - Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography - Biography of Charles Babbage. | Feb 14, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Science Museum - Astonishing Science - Spectacular Museum - Biography of Charles Babbage. | Feb 14, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Computer History Museum - Biography of Charles Babbage. | Feb 14, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Victorian Web - Biography of Charles Babbage. | Sep 16, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Charles Babbage Inventions. | Sep 16, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Charles Babbage. | Sep 16, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of Charles Babbage. | Sep 16, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Computer History Museum - Biography of Charles Babbage. | Jul 03, 2011 | ||
| Bibliography added. | Apr 07, 2011 | ||
| Added new Web site: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive - Biography of Charles Babbage. | Mar 25, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Biography of Charles Babbage. | Feb 08, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Biography of Charles Babbage. |
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| Article revised. | Feb 15, 2002 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | May 04, 1999 |
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