People
Individual people, sometimes relatively unknown to the masses, continue to make their mark on our world.
Consider someone like Charles Babbage (1791), who is considered by many to be the ‘father of the computer’ for his creation of ‘the difference engine’. Of course, you could trace the true history of computing further back to Ramon Lull in 1275, or Leonardo da Vinci in 1493.
Below, History-Computer shares the stories of remarkable people like them from every era in history.
