Babbage
Proper noun
Meaning
Babbage
A surname.
Examples
A controversy Babbage had with Richard Jones lasted for six years. citation He never did give a lecture.
Ada Lovelace spent the better part of a year doing this, assisted with input from Babbage.
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.
Around the age of eight, Babbage was sent to a country school in Alphington near Exeter to recover from a life-threatening fever.
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.
After Cambridge Considering only his reputation, Babbage quickly made progress.