Word info

Babbage

Proper noun

Meaning

Babbage

A surname.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

A controversy Babbage had with Richard Jones lasted for six years. citation He never did give a lecture. Source: Internet

Ada Lovelace spent the better part of a year doing this, assisted with input from Babbage. Source: Internet

As early as 1845, Babbage had solved a cipher that had been posed as a challenge by his nephew Henry Hollier, and in the process, he made a discovery about ciphers that were based on Vigenère tables. Source: Internet

Around the age of eight, Babbage was sent to a country school in Alphington near Exeter to recover from a life-threatening fever. Source: Internet

After a trip to Paris in which he heard of de Prony’s method, Babbage wrote, I conceived all of a sudden the idea of applying the same method to the immense work with which I had been burdened, and to manufacture logarithms as one manufactures pins. Source: Internet

After Cambridge Considering only his reputation, Babbage quickly made progress. Source: Internet

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