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
Babbage is most often credited with inventing the first digital computer and first automatic computer. Lily-chan :]
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.
Charles Babbage was a mathematician living in the 19th century who created designs for two calculating machines. He was regarded as a talented mathematician and his machines, the "difference engine" and the "analytical engine" were both designed to solve mathematical calculations. History shows him to be a far better designer than builder because neither of them were completed by him. Despite that, it is generally regarded that the operating principles of the machines were similar to those of modern computers. Although his reputation was damaged by the failure to complete either of the engines, two difference engines have since been built and tested. One is now in the London Science Museum and the other in the computer history museum in California. Both models were built as far as possible using manufacturing tolerances achievable in the 19th century and both operate according to Babagge's description.
Charles baggage invented the digital and automatic computer.
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.
Leonardo da Vinci invented the bicycle and the helicopter.
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.