Talk:Charles Babbage
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An event mentioned in this article is a June 14 selected anniversary
Here's a wonderful Babbage quote that you may want to work in to the article somehow:
- On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
A google search will turn up zillions of hits on this, with several variants and almost no citations. My quotes.txt has a reference to http://www.hexatron.com/Bab/, which previously linked some good source material on this, but the page seems to be gone now. I posted a summary of what was once there to talk.origins, and you can see it on dejagoogle (http://groups.google.com/groups?q=bdbryant+babbage+source+group:talk.origins&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d&selm=an3cll%24k8d%241%40geraldo.cc.utexas.edu&rnum=1).
-- B.Bryant
Should this article be turned into one concise article? Instead of 3? --User:Dgrant
Yes, definitely the articles should be merged. AxelBoldt 22:09 Mar 2, 2003 (UTC)
Okay, whoever decides to merge these, leave a note here... and I will do likewise. To prevent duplication of work. --Dave
Arno seems to have done a very good job of merging them. AxelBoldt 17:17 Mar 7, 2003 (UTC)
- Good work User:Arno! This article finally looks nice and clean.
- Why, thank you, I'm blushing!! Arno
I just noticed there are a lot one line paragraphs in this article. Is it possible that someone could merge them? I'd rather someone else do it then me, since I don't know much about Babbage. --dave
date and place of birth
It seems that there is quite a confusion regarding place and date of birth. Many resources are giving 26th December in 1791 many 26th December in 1792. Also place of birth is sometimes London and sometimes Teignmouth. However, I also found a source saying that the right date is 6th January 1792. Any clues? --Maros 23:16, 28 May 2005 (UTC)