Charles Babbage's Accomplishments
In October of 1810 Charles got into Trinity College in Cambridge. There him and his friends formed the Analytical Society. The Analytical Society was a group that promoted the use of Leibnizian or analytical calculus as opposed to Newtonian calculus. Charles also created the difference engine in 1821. The government gave Charles £1500 to create the machine.The government continued its support, advancing £1500 on April 29, 1829, £3000 on December 3, and £3000 on February 24, 1830. In total he spent £23,000 in attempt to create the difference engine including £6000 of his own money. In 1842 Charles and the government abandoned the project. The difference machine was supposed to calculate polynomials by using a numerical method called the differences method.
The analytical machine is another one of Charles Babbage's creations. He started to create the machine in 1833 and ended it's production in 1842. This machine was supposed to be able to solve any equation. Charles then had someone write a book to understand the machine, the book was never finished.
October 1846, Charles Babbage wanted to fix the difference machine. He decided to just make a whole new one. Since he had finished the analytical machine Charles had a better understanding of what to do. He created the second difference machine based off the analytical machine. Prior to the first difference machine, the second one used only 8000 parts, 3 times less than the first. Charles didn't actually start to make the machine any different until he had it remade.
In 1824 Babbage won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society "for his invention of an engine for calculating mathematical and astronomical tables".
The analytical machine is another one of Charles Babbage's creations. He started to create the machine in 1833 and ended it's production in 1842. This machine was supposed to be able to solve any equation. Charles then had someone write a book to understand the machine, the book was never finished.
October 1846, Charles Babbage wanted to fix the difference machine. He decided to just make a whole new one. Since he had finished the analytical machine Charles had a better understanding of what to do. He created the second difference machine based off the analytical machine. Prior to the first difference machine, the second one used only 8000 parts, 3 times less than the first. Charles didn't actually start to make the machine any different until he had it remade.
In 1824 Babbage won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society "for his invention of an engine for calculating mathematical and astronomical tables".