A Wood Engraving of Charles Babbage, the inventor of the computer.

Charles Babbage. Wood engraving after T.D. Scott, 1871. Babbage built the first programmable computer.

Posted on 2021-06-09 by Emmanuel Isaiah Smith

About this work
Publication/Creation
1871
Physical description
1 print : wood engraving
Contributors
Scott, Thomas Dewell, 1828-1911
Publications note
R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 134.4
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 658i
Creator/production credits
Bear’s Scott’s monogram: TS

The inscription on this 1871 woodcut reads, "The Late Mr. Babbage."