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

Writer: Emmanuel Isaiah Smith
Emmanuel Isaiah Smith
Jun 11, 2021
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Charles Babbage designed and built the first computer in the 1800s. This 1871 woodcut engraving was completed after his death that same year.



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

A wood-cut engraving of Mr. Charles Babbage, the father of the computer.


 
 
 

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