Charles began envisioning and working on his most popular invention, a calculating machine called an Analytical Engine. The machine could carry out different kinds of mathematical operations ...

The abacus, a simple counting aid, may have been invented in Babylonia (now Iraq ... Babbage's next idea is the Analytical Engine - a mechanical computer that can solve any mathematical problem.

The famous and prolific nineteenth-century mathematician, engineer and inventor Charles Babbage (1791–1871 ... and potential application of Charles Babbage's calculating engines, notably the ...