Charles Babbage

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Timeline

1791, December 26: born

1814: graduates with BA from Cambridge

1814, July 2: marries Georgiana

1815: series of lectures on astronomy to the Royal institution

1816: elected member of the Royal Society

1819: travels with his friend John Herschel to France, meeting intellectuals; probably sees Le Tables du Cadastre of the French Ordnance Survey undertaken by Baron Gaspard de Prony; de Prony organizes 3 commitees to make and check calculations, result is logarithmic tables in 17 folio ms volumes, wanted to print them but proved to be difficult/costly (Essinger 2004, 60)

1821-1833: working on automatic cogwheel-based machine to calculate and print mathematical tables, the Difference Engine

1827: father Benjamin dies, he inherits his wealth

1839, December: writes letter to François Jean Dominique Arago requesting copy of Jacquard portrait woven by Jacquard loom and any memoirs about him (Essinger 2004, 46-7)

1871: died

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