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




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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