"The Late Mr. Charles Babbage, F.R.S." is the obituary for Charles Babbage published in The London Times on October 23, 1871.
- "Our obituary column on Saturday contained the name of one of the most active and original of original thinkers, and whose name has been known through the length and breadth of the kingdom for nearly half a century as a practical mathematician—we mean Mr. Charles Babbage. He died at his residence in Dorset-street, Marylebone, at the close of last week, at an age, spite of organ-grinding persecutors, little short of 80 years." (Read on...)
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