Charles Babbage has developed the principles of…

Charles Babbage has developed the principles of the mechanical computer, designing a calculating machine with input, storage, and output.

Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge since 1828, Babbage has contributed largely to several scientific periodicals, and had been instrumental in founding the Astronomical Society in 1820 and the Statistical Society in 1834.

He has never taught during these twelve years, instead studying a range of economic, scientific and technological problems.

He dreams of designing mechanical calculating machines.

Babbage had in 1830 published the controversial Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, which had led to the formation, in 1831, of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

In 1833, he had proposed an early form of operations research in his influential work, On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures.