Charles Babbage Charles Babbage Charles Babbage (; 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer. Considered by some to be a "father of the computer", Babbage is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer that eventually led to more complex electronic designs, though all the essential ideas of modern computers are to be found in Babbage's analytical engine. His varied work in other fields has led him to be described as "pre-eminent" among the many polymaths of his century. Parts of Babbage's incomplete
Marconi Transistorised Automatic Computer (T.A.C.) York. Addition manuals and documentation exist at the School of Computer Science, University of Manchester and the Manchester John Rylands Library, the original performance summary specification at. Marconi went on to develop the Myriad series of computers Marconi Transistorised Automatic Computer (T.A.C.) The Marconi Transistorized Automatic Computer was Marconi Company's first computer, designed and manufactured from around 1959. They employed Germanium transistors which by this time were sufficiently reliable with room temperatures kept below about 23 degrees C. Apart from transistor failure other common faults included Power Supply capacitors 'drying out' resulting in excess ripple and poor connections on the