208 - Charles Babbage

Don't Look Now

English - February 07, 2023 05:00 - 32 minutes - 22.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
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Charles Babbage was a 19th century inventor and polymath who is most famous for inventing the programmable digital computer in a purely mechanical as opposed to electrical form. He was joined by Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, who was an early visionary with ideas about the application of computers beyond mere calculation.