Charles Babbage green plaque


Connection to This Location
It was within these walls, or rather their Victorian predecessors, that Charles Babbage spent the final three decades of his life working tirelessly on his mechanical calculating machines. After moving to this Dorset Street address in 1839, Babbage used the house as both his residence and workshop, ...
Location
1a Dorset Street, Westminster
Inscription
Charles Babbage (1791-1871) mathematician & pioneer of the modern computer lived in a house on this site 1839-1871