Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871
Items in various series of The Royal Society, 1812-1866.
Materials by or relating to Charles Babbage can be found in the following series: Herschel Letters: ca. 420 letters between Babbage and J. F. W. Herschel on personal and scientific matters (calculating machine, mathematics), ca. 200 of which are written by Babbage. Lubbock Letters: 25 items. Domestic Manuscripts: 23 items, mostly committee papers regarding Babbage's calculating machine. Philosophical Transactions: 5 papers. Archived Papers: 1 paper. Miscellaneous Manuscripts: 1 item. Referees Reports: 1 joint report by C. Lyell and H. Falconer on a paper by Babbage.
Entered Trinity College Cambridge 1811, but graduated M. A. from Peterhouse 1814. M. A. 1817. F. R. S. 1816. Obtained a government grant for making a calculating machine but work ceased due to disagreements with the engineer who was to construct it. In 1834 Babbage offered a new design and he spent 37 years of his life upon it, spending Đ6000 of his own money and Đ17000 of the nation's. It was finally abandoned by the government in 1842, and is preserved at the South Kensington Museum. Lucasian Professor of mathematics, Cambridge, 1828-1839.
Herschel, John F. W. (John Frederick William), Sir, 1792-1871.
Lubbock, J. W. (John William), Sir, 1803-1865.
Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1865.
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Calculators -- Technological innovations -- England -- 19th century.
Mathematics
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Falconer, H.
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