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."