Henry Prevost Babbage
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Henry Prevost Babbage | |
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Born | 1824 |
Died | 29 January 1918[1] |
Allegiance | East India Company |
Service/ | Bengal Army |
Rank | Major general |
Alma mater | |
Other work | Babbage's Calculating Engines |
Henry Prevost Babbage (1824โ1918) was a soldier in the Bengal Army of the East India Company. After retiring with the rank of major general, he continued the work of his father, Charles Babbage, whom he had assisted as a student. He organised and edited his father's papers and prototypes and arranged for their publication and completion. These works included Babbage's Calculating Engines (1889) and a working Analytical Engine Mill โ a simplified portion of the full Analytical Engine design.[2]
Military career
He was brevetted as a colonel in the Bengal Staff Corps on 10 June 1874.[3]
References
- ^ a b c "Babbage, Maj.-Gen. Henry Prevost", Who Was Who, Oxford University Press, 1 December 2007, doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U192968
- ^ Simon Schaffer (2019), "Ideas Embodied in Metal", The Whipple Museum of the History of Science: Objects and Investigations, to Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of R. S. Whipple's Gift to the University of Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 130โ153, ISBN 9781108498272
- ^ "Brevet" (PDF), The London Gazette, p. 4203, 28 August 1874
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