Charles

Babbage
Napravio: Franci Papić
Early Life and Youth
• Born on December 26th,
1791, in London
• One of four children born
in the wealthy Babbage
family
• His father was a banker
and merchant
• He received most of his early
education from private tutors
because he was too sick to go
to public school
• In 1810, he entered Trinity
College at Cambridge
University
Life After Graduation
• After he graduated, he designed a
machine that would calculate number
tables correctly without any human
intervention
• He called this device Difference
Machine #1
• The device got presented to the
government, and Babbage received
funds to complete building the machine
• He soon abandoned the project because
it was too complicated to build at the
time
• Later, he began working on a general-
purpose calculating device which he
named The Analytical Engine
• It had similar components that we
use today (such as CPU and hard
drive)
• The purpose of the machine was to
eliminate the risk of human error in
the calculation of mathematical
results
• Due to inadequate funding, he never
completed building the device
Trying Again and Facing Death
• In 1849, he returned to his abandoned
machine and worked on it for two years
• He succeeded and called it Difference
Machine #2
• It required 8000 parts of bronze cast
iron and steel, and it would weigh 5
tons
• Its function was to calculate
polynomials and print the result on
plaster 
• He passed away before realizing his
dream, and all that was left were his
drawings, kept in the library of the
Science Museum in London
Babbage's Legacy
• In 1985, his drawings would be found
by the museum's new curator Doran
Swade, who was convinced that the
machine could be built 
• It took 17 years to complete
• Today, the Difference Machine #2 is
on display at the London Museum of
Science along with half of Babbage's
brain (the other half is housed at the
Hunterian Museum in London)
Thank you for Your attention!
• Sources:
• google.com
• wikipedia.org
• computerhistory.org/babbage
• ournationalheroes.com