You know, Charles Babbage?

你知道查尔斯·巴贝奇吗？

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CHARLES Babbage, this blog's namesake, disliked the street noise of London prevalent in the 1860s, a couple of decades after this newspaper was founded.

本博客以之命名的CHARLES Babbage在十九世纪六十年代很讨厌伦敦普遍的街道噪音，那时也是the Economist报纸创办几十年之后。

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I like your story of Charles Babbage, who in the 1820s basically invented the concept of computer a century before anyone, including him, could make one.

你书中关于查尔斯·巴贝奇(Charles Babbage)的故事我很喜欢，他在十九世纪二十年代就发明了计算机概念，而真正的计算机却是在一个世纪之后出现的。

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The man who ultimately did, Charles Babbage, was as much the Renaissance man as Alberti--he also invented the speedometer, the cowcatcher and the mortality tables that are the basis of today's life insurance.

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