Father of Computer

Charles Babbage

Charles Babbage is the one who is known as the father of the computer. He was born on 26th December 1971 and died in 1871. He is an English polymath. He is also a mathematician, philosopher, inventor, mechanical engineer, and also the one who originated the concept of digital programming.



He is the one who invented the first mechanical computer. Later these are developed into more complex devices. All of the modern technologies we are using nowadays came from Babbage's analytical engine.

Among many polymaths in his century, he is considered as the top for his excellence in many other fields. A science museum in London has some of Babbage's incomplete mechanisms.

Charles Babbage's Childhood:

According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, he was born at 44 Crosby Row, London, England. As per The Times, his date of birth was 26th December 1792. Later from his nephew, it was known that he was born a year earlier which is in 1791.

He was baptized on 6th January 1972. His parents were Benjamin Babbage and Betsy Plumleigh Teape. His father worked as a banking partner of William Praed.

At Cambridge University:

He joined in Trinity College, Cambridge in October 1810. He already thought himself some kind of mathematics. He already read in Robert Woodhouse, Joseph Louis Lagrange, and Marie Agnesi. As he already studied at higher levels, he was highly disappointed by the teaching techniques at the university.

Babbage was transferred to Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1812. He stood as a top student in mathematics. But later he received a degree without any exam in 1814.

After Cambridge, he lectured at the Royal Institution on astronomy in 1815. in 1816, he was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society. He worked on electrodynamics along with Herschel about Aragon's rotations. A book was later published in the year 1825.

About his religious views, he wrote

   " My mother has taught me the usual forms of prayers to do at nights. "