Charles Babbage: Father of Modern Computing 🖥️

Computers didn’t start with Silicon Valley, they started with a man in 1800s London who never finished his homework.

Before electricity, before code, before screens… one curious mathematician dreamed up the blueprint for the modern computer — and no one listened.

Meet Charles Babbage, the failed minister turned mathematical rebel, whose notebooks became the secret foundation for the digital world we live in today.

A man who believed science proved the existence of God… and built machines to show it.

From steam-powered calculators, to punch-card programming, to the first sparks of artificial intelligence — Babbage imagined it all a century before anyone else caught up.

This is the story of the inventor who never finished his invention…
and still changed the world.

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Timestamps
00:00 – What the world would look like without computers
00:37 – Who was Charles Babbage?
02:26 – Childhood, sickness, and early love for math
03:14 – Cambridge and forbidden mathematics
05:27 – Science, faith, and “The Ghost Club”
08:39 – Professor and early inventions
09:31 – Spark of the Difference Engine
11:24 – London: the 1800s tech hub
14:35 – The revolutionary Analytical Engine
22:16 – Ada Lovelace: the first programmer
25:35 – Funding lost and Babbage’s unfinished legacy
28:03 – Why Babbage is the father of modern computing

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