Pop Culture References of Wizard101
Babbage Basset – Charles Babbage
http://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Babbage_Basset#ixzz7Yq8DwjZN
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage
Babbage Basset is a Castle Magic vendor. He is located in Regent’s Square, Marleybone, near the entrance to the Royal Museum. Babbage introduces Wizards to the basics of Castle Magic. He sells Magic Items and Treasure Cards.
Charles Babbage KH FRS (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath; a mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer. Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer. Babbage is considered by some to be “father of the computer”. Babbage is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer, the Difference Engine, that eventually led to more complex electronic designs, though all the essential ideas of modern computers are to be found in Babbage’s Analytical Engine, programmed using a principle openly borrowed from the Jacquard loom. Babbage had a broad range of interests in addition to his work on computers covered in his book Economy of Manufactures and Machinery.
This is the fifty-first article chronicling the #W101PopCulture references starting in Wizard City and the eighth Marleybone article. The current list of all the (known) Marleybone references are located here.
Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.
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