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Mathematician & inventor Charles Babbage died #OTD in 1871.
Babbage is considered by some to be "father of the computer". He is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer, the Difference Engine, that eventually led to more complex electronic designs, though all the essential ideas of modern computers are to be found in Babbage's Analytical Engine, programmed using a principle openly borrowed from the Jacquard loom.
Books by Babbage at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/556#books #mathematics
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