Charles Babbage was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer. He is considered a father of computer science, inventing both the difference engine and analytical engine, early mechanical general-purpose computers that analyzed numbers and implemented basic logic. Babbage worked on reforming the British postal system, invented the cow catcher device, and held positions including Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University.

2.  Father of Computer
 A polymath
• Mathematics
• Mechanical Engineering
• Political Economy
• Computer Science
• Philosopher
 Lucasian Professor of Math in
Cambridge. (1828-1839)
 Founded member of Royal
Astronomical Society (1820)

3. Cow catcher
Reformed the British Postal
System
Difference Engine
Analytical Engine

4.  He dislikes untidiness and unprecision
 He was very able with logarithmic
tables
 He was inspired from an existing work
on calculating machines produced by
W. Schickard, B. Pascal and G. Leibniz

5. Letter to Sir Humphry Davy, 1822

10. Charles Babbage’s brain on display at The
Science Museum