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.
He wanted to build a mechanical computer. He designed it and called it the Analytical Engine. He never finished building it, though.
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Charles Babbage, however he never built it.
London, but he never got to build it.
London, but he never built it.
He never completed it. He died first.
Charles Babbage, but he was never able to get it built.
He designed the Analytical Engine in the 1830s, but never built it.
Charles babbage was the grand father of computer
Babbage has priority as his invention precedes Zuse by about a century, even though he never was able to build it.
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.
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