BIOGRAPHY OF INVENTOR

Biography of Charles Babbage

 

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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 daughter—Mary Ann (born 1798). She outlived Charles and the two siblings remained close throughout their lives.

Young Charles was brought up as an Anglican and received his earliest education at home. His childhood was marred by chronic illness and hoping that country living would improve his health, around the age of eight his parents began to sent him to country schools. In 1803, his family returned to Devon, and in improved health, Charles was sent to a small residential school in the village of Enfield near London, where he remained for three years. The teacher at Enfield was Stephen Freeman, an amateur astronomer and namely he awakened Charles’s interest in science and mathematics.

His love of investigation, which became the ruling passion of his life, was first evinced at that time, when he made an experiment in order to ascertain wherher or not the Devil could really be raised in a personal form (the result was negative, and that removed a doubt which has obscured his religious belief :-).

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