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Here are some facts about Charles Babbage.

• Charles Babbage was an English inventor, engineer and mathematician. He is best known for devising the first mechanical computer which led to modern advances in computers.
• Babbage was born in London in 1791, attended Cambridge University and became the college’s top mathematician.

• He and his friends at Cambridge founded the Ghost Club to investigate supernatural happenings.

• He helped to found the Astronomical Society in 1820.

  He was also in charge of a survey of Ireland and helped to create Britain’s modern postal system.

• In 1822, Charles Babbage devised a machine able to perform mathematical calculations. He built a 12 metre long workshop in his garden, but was accused of wasting government money on the project.
• During the 1830s, Babbage worked on an analytical engine which would perform all sorts of calculations.

  Babbage and his team produced over 7,000 pages of designs and notes for th