BIOGRAPHY OF INVENTOR
Biography of Charles Babbage lets jump to the material charles , credited deservedly as Father of the Computer , the world renowned inventor of Differential Engine and Analytical Engine , was born on the 26 December, 1791, in the family home at 44 Crosby Row, Walworth Road, London. He was the first child of Benjamin Babbage (1753-1827) and Elizabeth Plumleigh Babbage, née Teape (1759-1844). Benjamin Babbage Sr., Charles' grandfather, was mayor of Totnes in Devon (in southwest England). His son, also Benjamin (Charles' father) had started out as a goldsmith in the small town of Totnes, a picturesque port in Devonshire, and later became a successful merchant and banker, who had waited until he was 38 year of age and wealthy before marrying and moving to London in 1790 to join a new banking firm—Bitton Estate in Teignmouth. Elizabeth Teape came from a prominent Devonshire family. After Charles, the family had two other sons, who died in infancy, and a daughte...