Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871
Charles Babbage correspondence, 1830-1849.
Letters from Charles Babbage, mathematician, to 11th Duke of Somerset.
Mathematician. Trinity College, Cambridge (England), from 1811; graduated Peterhouse, 1914; M.A. 1817. Lucasian professor of mathematics, Cambridge University, 1828-1839. Fellow Royal Society, 1816. Worked with and tried to perfect calculating machines; devised basic principles of modern computers.
Somerset, Edward Adolphus Seymour, Duke of, 1775-1855.
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