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=== Autopsy report === In 1983, the autopsy report for Charles Babbage was discovered and later published by his great-great-grandson.<ref>{{cite journal | author=Babbage, Neville | title = Autopsy Report on the Body of Charles Babbage ( "the father of the computer ") | journal=Medical Journal of Australia |date=June 1991 | volume = 154 | issue = 11 | pages = 758β759 | pmid = 2046574 | doi = 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1991.tb121318.x | s2cid = 37539400 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | author=Williams, Michael R. | title = The "Last Word " on Charles Babbage | doi = 10.1109/85.728225 | journal=IEEE Annals of the History of Computing | year = 1998 | volume = 20 | pages = 10β14 | issue=4}}{{subscription required}}</ref> A copy of the original is also available.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?X9=BABBAGE,%20CHARLES | title = Postmortem report by John Gregory Smith, F.R.C.S. (anatomist) | publisher=Science and society.co.UK | access-date =29 January 2009 }}</ref> Half of Babbage's brain is preserved at [[Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons|the Hunterian Museum in the Royal College of Surgeons]] in London.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.danyey.co.uk/london.php | title = Babbage's brain | publisher=DanYEY.co.uk | access-date =29 January 2009 }}</ref> The other half of Babbage's brain is on display in the Science Museum, London.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/galleries/computing.aspx |title=Visit the museum, Galleries, Computing, Overview |publisher=Science Museum |access-date=25 October 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100920225632/http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/galleries/computing.aspx |archive-date=20 September 2010 }}</ref>
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