What is the work of Charles Babbage?

Answer 1

Charles Babbage is acclaimed as the inventor of the computer.

He actually designed mechanical calculating machines, based on the idea of a series of cogs to compute the answer to mathematical problems. He developed this idea by adding the concept of punched cards for data input, something similar to the weaving industry's system for controlling looms so that intricate patterns could be reproduced mechanically and rapidly.

Babbage had the idea of different machines for different types and stages of mathematical computation. He called these machines 'Calculating Engines.'

Babbage's ideas and technical drawings were instrumental in the development of modern-day computers, which still use his concepts of using different 'machines' (different parts of the computer) to perform the various functions necessary to transform input into output.

Babbage was a mathematician, engineer, philosopher and politician. He works also include automating the calculation of logarithm tables and astronomical tables; and how a machine could be made which could break secret codes.