Narrator: A BRIEF HISTORY OF CHARLES BABBAGE AND HIS WONDERFUL CALCULATING ENGINES COMICS
T-Rex: Charles Babbage spent a lot of his time working on mechanical calculating engines!
T-Rex: These were machines that could add and subtract, and later multiply and divide (through repeated addition and subtraction), forecasting in many ways the design of modern-day computers!
T-Rex: Unfortunately the machines, with thousands of tiny gears and cogs, were too complex, beyond his means to fully manufacture at the time (early 1800s).
T-Rex: While some see Babbage as the father of modern computers, he had little actual influence!
Utahraptor: Yes, quite right!
Utahraptor: This is because many of the innovations in his Analytical Engine, such as conditional branching and a separation of processing and memory, were left to be re-discovered by a new generation of pioneers!
T-Rex: Indeed!
T-Rex: This concludes the brief history of Charles Babbage and his wonderful calculating engines!
