machanical computer
Charles babbage
The difference engine and the analytical engine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_babbage
He is famous for his mechanical machines he designed, the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine, though he did not actually fully build them. They were completed by others after he died. He is also credited with inventing other things. He invented the frame at the front of locomotives that help clear items from a rail line, which is called a pilot or a cow catcher. He also invented an ophthalmoscope, a device for examining the eye.
Click the Related Link, below, to see the KerryR picture gallery of Charles Babbage and his inventions. This gallery is unique in that it contains two rare photographs of Babbage taken in the mid- and later 19th century.
The Analytical Engine and The Difference Engine
The name is not BABBLE but BABBAGE. For a full history of Babbage, including the two Difference Engines and the Analytical Engine, please see the link.
Babbage is most often credited with inventing the first digital computer and first automatic computer. Lily-chan :]
In 1834 Charles Babbage (1791-1871) designed the forerunner of the computer, the mechanical Analytical Engine. It was designed to perform complicated calculations such as multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction.
Charles baggage invented the digital and automatic computer.
Leonardo da Vinci invented the bicycle and the helicopter.
AnswerAlthough not a computer in the modern sense, Charles Babbage invented the Difference engine--essentially a mechanical calculator, which he began work on in 1822. Two models of his computer have been completed and are on display, one in London, the other California. He worked on an improved version called the Analytic engine until his death in 1871.
Charles Babbage was the eldest of four children born to Benjamin and Betty Plumleigh Babbage. His mother gave birth to a son, Henry, in October 1874, but the child died in infancy. In May 1876, she gave birth to another son, whom they also named Henry, who died as a small child. Finally, in March 1878, Betty bore a fourth child, a girl, named Mary Anne. Charles and Mary Anne had a warm, lifelong relationship. He preceded her in death.