Babbage in a sentence

Babbage's Analytical Engine design predated all these (in the mid-19th century), it was a decimal, programmable, entirely mechanical construction—but was only partially designed and never built during Babbage's lifetime.

Construction Henry Babbage's Analytical Engine Mill, built in 1910, in the Science Museum (London) Late in his life, Babbage sought ways to build a simplified version of the machine, and assembled a small part of it before his death in 1871.

Babbage is a former defence bureaucrat, academic and security consultant, and a long-time advocate of acquiring nuclear submarines to confront China.

Helen Babbage-Peart, 48, from Cheltenham has set up a Go Fund Me page to help the community asset to continue to provide support for those in need.

He would usually go to Sunday school but that day chose to stay at home in Park Road when his friends, Sylvia Daniel and Gerald Babbage, came to call.

I also really love The Thrilling Adventures Of Lovelace And Babbage by Sydney Padua.

In Babbage’s eyes, the task of his engines was to reproduce and speed up computation in the general framework of industrial production and division of labor.

NCA director general of threats James Babbage said: ‘In some cases it is unclear whether the mules knew what the potential penalties are but in most cases they were operating on behalf of organised criminal gangs.

New Babbage Landing Zone: This brand-new landing zone and trading hub is now open for business!

A controversy Babbage had with Richard Jones lasted for six years. citation He never did give a lecture.

Ada Lovelace spent the better part of a year doing this, assisted with input from Babbage.

After 1834 and Lardner's Edinburgh Review article he set up a project of his own, doubting whether Babbage's initial plan could be carried out.

After Cambridge Considering only his reputation, Babbage quickly made progress.

Around the age of eight, Babbage was sent to a country school in Alphington near Exeter to recover from a life-threatening fever.

As early as 1845, Babbage had solved a cipher that had been posed as a challenge by his nephew Henry Hollier, and in the process, he made a discovery about ciphers that were based on Vigenère tables.

At age 12 this future "Lady Fairy", as Charles Babbage affectionately called her, decided she wanted to fly.

At Cambridge, Babbage saw the fallibility of this process, and the opportunity of adding mechanisation into its management.

A Vagrant, devoted one of her comic strips to Charles and Georgiana Babbage.

Babbage appreciated that the machine was capable of great feats of calculation, including primitive logical reasoning, but he did not appreciate that no other machine could do better.

Babbage believes he can, by his engine, form the product of two numbers, each containing twenty figures, in three minutes".sfn By comparison the Harvard Mark I could perform the same task in just six seconds.