Basically he got tired and frustrated working as a computer himself (at the time the word referred to a person whose job was to do calculations). He is said to have commented (something like) "these calculations should be done by steam!".
Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage did not invent the computer. He improved and made what we call the computer. He finished it in 1812.He did not design the Analytical Engine until the 1840s and he never built it. He could not finish anything as he always got distracted by a better idea.
Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 - 18 October 1871) Charles Babbage was an English mathematician, philosopher, mechanical engineer and (proto-) computer scientist who originated the idea of a programmable computer. Parts of his uncompleted mechanisms are on display in the London Science Museum. Working from Babbage's original plans, a computer was ultimately built and functioned perfectly. Built to tolerances achievable in the 19th century, the finished engine indicated that Babbage's machine would have worked. Babbage had even designed a printer; it featured astonishing complexity for a 19th century device.
Do you mean Charles Babbage? Charles Babbage (1791-1871) was an English mathematician, mechancal engineer and inventor. He is famous for designing the "difference engine" which was a machine which would calculate mathematical tables accurately. Babbage's design was in effect a programmable mechanical computer and is the forerunner of modern electronic computers.
Charles Babbage invented the computer Several people came up with various ideas for automatic computing devices at various times and working on different tasks, all were motivated by the common problem of having to do massive amounts of computations that were painfully tedious to do without error. The final result of this quest is the modern computer.
Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage was the first to create the idea of a mechanical computer ( he invented it, he didn't discover it). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage
Charles Babbage did not invent the computer. He improved and made what we call the computer. He finished it in 1812.He did not design the Analytical Engine until the 1840s and he never built it. He could not finish anything as he always got distracted by a better idea.
Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 - 18 October 1871) Charles Babbage was an English mathematician, philosopher, mechanical engineer and (proto-) computer scientist who originated the idea of a programmable computer. Parts of his uncompleted mechanisms are on display in the London Science Museum. Working from Babbage's original plans, a computer was ultimately built and functioned perfectly. Built to tolerances achievable in the 19th century, the finished engine indicated that Babbage's machine would have worked. Babbage had even designed a printer; it featured astonishing complexity for a 19th century device.
Do you mean Charles Babbage? Charles Babbage (1791-1871) was an English mathematician, mechancal engineer and inventor. He is famous for designing the "difference engine" which was a machine which would calculate mathematical tables accurately. Babbage's design was in effect a programmable mechanical computer and is the forerunner of modern electronic computers.
Charles Babbage
He officially presented the idea on June 14, 1822 to the Royal Astronomical Society. He constructed his first computing machine in 1832.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The Analytical Engine was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by Charles Babbage in 1837.This design followed his design for a Difference Engine , an automatic mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions, in 1823.
Well he was not the only one to come up with the idea of inventing computers .Several people came up with various ideas for automatic computing devices at various times and working on different tasks, all were motivated by the common problem of having to do massive amounts of computations that were painfully tedious to do without error. The final result of this quest is the modern PC computer.
Charles Babbage invented the computer Several people came up with various ideas for automatic computing devices at various times and working on different tasks, all were motivated by the common problem of having to do massive amounts of computations that were painfully tedious to do without error. The final result of this quest is the modern computer.
Charles Babbage was a classical example of why there comes a time when you need to shoot the engineers and just build the machine. He could never finish a design and freeze it so it could be built. As soon as he got a better idea as to how to design something he just dropped all work on the current design and started from scratch on the new idea.
Charles Babbage made several plans to completing the computer in London. Babbage was born in London in 1791 and spent most of his life in or near that city, other than attending school (various secondary schools, then Cambridge University) and a short time after his marriage (when he lived in the West Midlands, not far from Wales), so it would have been there.