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Charles Babbage

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Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.


— Charles Babbage


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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.


— Charles Babbage


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Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.


— Charles Babbage


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That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.


— Charles Babbage


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That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.


— Charles Babbage


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The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.


— Charles Babbage


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The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.


— Charles Babbage


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The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.


— Charles Babbage


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The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs.


— Charles Babbage


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The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.


— Charles Babbage


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About Charles Babbage

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Did you know about Charles Babbage?

However after the obituary appeared a nephew wrote to say that Charles Babbage was born one year earlier in 1791. The book is a work of natural theology and incorporates extracts from correspondence he had been having with John Herschel on the subject. The main difference between the two engines is that the Analytical Engine could be programmed using punched cards.

Nine years later the Science Museum completed the printer Babbage had designed for the difference engine. In 1991 a perfectly functioning difference engine was constructed from Babbage's original plans.

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