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NAMED AFTER: CHARLES BABBAGE

DATE OF BIRTH: 26 DECEMBER 1791

DATE OF DEATH: 18 OCTOBER 1871

AGE OF DEATH: 79

CAUSE OF DEATH: RENAL INADEQUACY, SECONDARY TO CYSTITIS

ABOUT CHARLES BABBAGE

Charles Babbage was an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer

BABBAGE'S ACHIEVEMENTS

Babbage is considered by some to be "father of the computer". Babbage is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer, the Difference Engine, that eventually led to more complex electronic designs, though all the essential ideas of modern computers are to be found in Babbage's Analytical Engine, programmed using a principle openly borrowed from the Jacquard loom.

Babbage had a broad range of interests in addition to his work on computers covered in his book Economy of Manufactures and Machinery. His varied work in other fields has led him to be described as "pre-eminent" among the many polymaths of his century.

Babbage, who died before the complete successful engineering of many of his designs, including his Difference Engine and Analytical Engine, remained a prominent figure in the ideating of computing.

Parts of Babbage's incomplete mechanisms are on display in the Science Museum in London. In 1991, a functioning difference engine was constructed from Babbage's original plans. Built to tolerances achievable in the 19th century, the success of the finished engine indicated that Babbage's machine would have worked

The idea of mechanically calculating mathematical tables first came to Babbage in 1812 or 1813. Later he made a small calculator that could perform certain mathematical computations to eight decimals. Then in 1823 he obtained government support for the design of a projected machine, the Difference Engine, with a 20-decimal capacity.

In 1843 Babbage’s friend mathematician Ada Lovelace translated a French paper about the Analytical Engine and, in her own annotations, published how it could perform a sequence of calculations, the first computer program. The Analytical Engine, however, was never completed.

Babbage’s design was forgotten until his unpublished notebooks were discovered in 1937. In 1991 British scientists built Difference Engine No. 2—accurate to 31 digits—to Babbage’s specifications, and in 2000 the printer for the Difference Engine was also built.

BABBAGE'S PUBLIC NUISANCES

Babbage involved himself in well-publicised but unpopular campaigns against public nuisances. He once counted all the broken panes of glass of a factory, publishing in 1857 a "Table of the Relative Frequency of the Causes of Breakage of Plate Glass Windows": Of 464 broken panes, 14 were caused by "drunken men, women or boys".

Babbage's distaste for commoners (the Mob) included writing "Observations of Street Nuisances" in 1864, as well as tallying up 165 "nuisances" over a period of 80 days. He especially hated street music, and in particular the music of organ grinders, against whom he railed in various venues. 

The following quotation is typical:

It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances.

Babbage was not alone in his campaign. A convert to the cause was the MP Michael Thomas Bass.

In the 1860s, Babbage also took up the anti-hoop-rolling campaign. He blamed hoop-rolling boys for driving their iron hoops under horses' legs, with the result that the rider is thrown and very often the horse breaks a leg. Babbage achieved a certain notoriety in this matter, being denounced in debate in Commons in 1864 for "commencing a crusade against the popular game of tip-cat and the trundling of hoops."

Basically he became a ken(male of version of Karen) of 1864

MEMORIALS FOR BABBAGE

There is a black plaque commemorating the 40 years Babbage spent at 1 Dorset Street, London. 👇

Locations, institutions and other things named after Babbage include:

🥬The Moon crater Babbage

🥬The Charles Babbage Institute, an information technology archive and research center at the University of Minnesota

🥬The Charles Babbage Premium, an annual computing award

🥬British Rail named a locomotive after him in the 1990s

🥬The Babbage Building at the University of Plymouth, where the university's school of computing is based

🥬The Babbage programming language for GEC 4000 series minicomputers

🥬"Babbage", The Economist's Science and Technology blog.

🥬The former chain retail computer and video-games store "Babbage's" (now GameStop) was named after him.

WHAT I THINK THIS ASTEROID COULD MEAN

Where you create a legacy or become extremely reknowed/ prominent

(Charles was known for being father of computers)

Multiple interest/ versatility

Where you attain support from law or people around you

Where your work may be forgotten or unaknowledged for a while and then become prominent or extremely important.

Deep rooted interests and where we tend to focus to to improve

Where we set ourselves apart from the crowd/ where we become distinguished.

Where we encourage others to follow us or where others feel the need to follow us

Where we become notorius/controversial too sooooo 👀😂