Charles Babbage - Things Named After Charles Babbage

Things Named After Charles Babbage

There have been a number of locations, institutions and others named after Babbage. They include:

• The Moon crater Babbage
• The Charles Babbage Institute, an information technology archive and research center at the University of Minnesota
• Babbage's, an American software retail store in the 1980s and 90s (it was later merged with other stores, into GameStop)
• The large Babbage lecture theatre at Cambridge University, used for undergraduate science lectures
• British Rail named a locomotive after him in the 1990s as part of a program of naming locomotives after famous and significant scientists
• The Babbage Building at the University of Plymouth, where the university's school of computing is based
• The IT Service of Cambridgeshire County Council was based in Babbage House on the Castle Park office complex up until December 2011.
• In Monk's Walk School, there is a block called "Babbage"
• In Chessington, in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, a road in a new housing development has been named Charles Babbage Close
• The Babbage programming language for GEC 4000 series minicomputers
• There is a Babbage Room at Totnes Museum, in Totnes where Babbage spent his youth
• "Babbage", The Economist's Science and Technology blog