Charles Babbage was a British mathematician and engineer who designed the Analytical Engine beginning in 1837, a mechanical general purpose calculating machine with a separate store and mill anticipating a computer's memory and processor. It was never built in his lifetime; this entity records his engineering design work, distinct from his mathematician facet minted separately on ScienceAtlas.
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Designed the Analytical Engine, a mechanical forerunner of the programmable computer.
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A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer.
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