Passages From The Life Of A Philosopher Author:Charles Babbage Babbage's Greatest Achievement Was His Detailed Plans For Calculating Engines, Both The Table-Making Difference Engines And The Far More Ambitious Analytical Engines, Which Were Flexible And Powerful, Punched-Card Controlled General Purpose Calculators, Embodying Many Features Which Later Reappeared In The Modern Stored Program Computer. These F... more »eatures Included: Punched Card Control; Separate Store And Mill; A Set Of Internal Registers (The Table Axes); Fast Multiplier/Divider; A Range Of Peripherals; Even Array Processing. Arguably Called The Father Of The Computer, This Is An Unabridged, Digitally Enlarged Printing Of His Inimitable Autobiography.« less