Charles Babbage Bingo

This bingo card has 9 images, a free space and 23 words: He was one of four children, He attended Trinity, Cambridge in 1810, Charles babbage was 79 when he died, Charles Babbage was born in Walworth, Surrey, In 1821 Babbage invented the Difference Engine to compile mathematical tables., The Difference Engine operated on discrete digits rather than smooth quantities, The memory unit was to be large enough to hold 1,000 50-digit numbers, The Difference Engine could perform a sequence of calculations, In 1991 British scientists built Difference Engine No. 2—accurate to 31 digits, In his twenties Babbage worked as a mathematician, principally in the calculus of functions, Difference Engine No 2 was never constructed in his lifetime., Babbage occupied the Lucasian chair of mathematics at Cambridge from 1828 to 1839., In 1814 he married Georgiana Whitmore, In 1828 Babbage moved to 1 Dorset Street, Science was not an established profession when Charles Babbage was alive, Charles Babbage designed a cow-catcher for the front end of railway locomotives, Charles Babbage ached for recognition, His daughter, Georgiana, on whom he doted, died while still in her teens sometime around 1834., In the 1830s Babbage was a lion of the London social scene., Dorset Street was a hub of social and intellectual life., Diplomacy was not Babbage's forte and his social and professional personas were at war., The title of the first biography on his life was called 'Irascible Genius: A Life of Charles Babbage, Inventor'. and In a prophetic passage written towards the end of his life Babbage affirmed his conviction in the value of his work..

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