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When Charles Babbage...
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When Charles Babbage (1791-1871) is remembered at all, it is as the inventor of the first programmable computer. Babbage's "difference engine" (or analytical engine) was essentially a mechanical calculator. Only one scaled down model was ever built and that was 120 years after Babbage died. Babbage's plan was for a steam powered machine the size of a locomotive.
Less well known is that Babbage is also the inventor of the cowcatcher, the pointy grating of iron bars on the front of a train that clears obstacles from the tracks.
Less well known is that Babbage is also the inventor of the cowcatcher, the pointy grating of iron bars on the front of a train that clears obstacles from the tracks.
