Charles Babbage and the Countess

Charles babbage was thirty years old in 1821, as was his close friend, john herschel, and in English intellectual circles they were both regarded as brilliant mathematicians. One day as babbage worked in preparing logarithmic tables, a tedious and boring task, he commented to herschel that he thought he could invent a machine to do these calculations with far more speed and accuracy than a human calculator could.

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