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Charles Babbage
Birthday: December 26, 1792
Deathday: October 18, 1871
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National: English
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.
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