Tracy Kotze

Charles Babbage's Odyssey to the Analytical Engine

A determined thinker labored against the limitations of his time in the dimly lighted chambers of early 19th-century London, where the air was thick with the aroma of ink and candles cast long shadows upon heaps of mathematical manuscripts. At the beginning of his journey, Charles Babbage—a name hardly known in history—set out on an adventure that would completely transform the field of computation.