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Henry Prevost Babbage

From Graces Guide

Maj-General Henry Prevost Babbage (1824-1918)

1824 Born the son of Charles Babbage and his wife Georgina Whitmore

1856 Presented a paper on Scheutz's Difference Engine and Babbage's Mechanical Notation.

1907 He commissioned a hand-operated printing calculator, based on the plans for the mill of his father's Analytical Engine. It was a four-function calculator designed for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.[1] It was built by the firm R. W. Munro, instrument makers.[2]


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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ Science Museum Collection
  2. ↑ The Times Oct. 4, 1960
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