Charles Babbage did not invent the computer. He improved and made what we call the computer. He finished it in 1812. He did not design the Analytical Engine until the 1840s and he never built it. He...
Babbage proposed his difference engine in 1822 and his analytical engine some years later. Both were mechanical computers (like old adding machines) Babbage built neither. It was not until recently...
Charles Babbage made several plans to completing the computer in London. Babbage was born in London in 1791 and spent most of his life in or near that city, other than attending school (various...