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Charles Babbage was born in London in the family of the bankers Benjamin Babbage and Elizabeth Tip
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Charles began to study at St. Peter's college in Cambridge, showed himself as the best mathematician of course, so after 2 years became a master of science without examination.
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Charles Babbage writes his report on the possible use of machines for mathematical calculations and creates a small machine, which allowed to consider the table of squares.
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His invention was recommended by the Royal scientific society to sponsor the government, therefore, was created the first automatic mechanical calculator in which we can reduce the polynomials.
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Charles with his classmate in college, John Herschel, Charles worked on the study of the magnetic rotation of Arago and magnetism.
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He began to study the life tables of George Barrett, took them and added, getting a job of comparing the insurance systems of life.
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Babbage invented the submersible submarine that could accommodate 4 people and did not rise from the bottom to 2 days.
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He worked as a Professor of mathematics at Cambridge, was a member of the American Academy of Sciences.
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He is writing a book about the economy in technology and production and for the first time uses the term the Babbage Principle.
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Charles had invented a cleaner for railway tracks, as well as the dynamometer.
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Babbage was fascinated with cryptology and in the Crimean war hacking the Vigenère cipher, acknowledged that a military secret.
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he died of kidney failure.