Why did charles babbage make a computer?
The most important reason was to automate the production of mathematical tables which were used in the British navy for navigation. Human’computers’ were found to be mking numerous mistakes and Babbage realised that a machine coupled to aprinter could do the repetetive job without errors. His ideas were sound but his instrument maker struggled to complete his instructions. The science museum in London has built a working machine and printer to Babbage’s design.
