He didnt. He tried to get money for it in 1835 but investors where sceptical due to Babbage's earlier construction failures. In 1837, swedish engineer Georg Scheutz managed to build a machine based on Babbage's blue prints
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The first computer printers were adaptations of existing punch card printing accounting machines or of electric typewriters. Printers were long used for teletypes before personal computers were invented. The first printer design was likely that of Charles Babbage who designed (but did not build) a rod-and-key printer for his "difference engine" in the early 1840's. The printer was actually built from his plans 150 years later, and completed in April, 2000.
The first postage stamp was issued by Great Britain on 1 May 1840. {| |- | It was referred to as the One Penny Black. It was issued in 1840 and depicted Queen Victoria. |}
The first computer program is thought to have been created by Ada Lovelace in the 1840's for Charles Babbage's general purpose computer. The program was called Notes and it was an algorithm that was to be used by a computer.
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in the year 1840