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Margaret Sharp (Ferguson) Peace 1822 - 1897

Margaret Sharp (Ferguson) Ferguson was born in 1822 in Greenock, Inverclyde County, Scotland United Kingdom to John Ferguson and Margaret (Walker) Ferguson. She married Robert Peace, and had children James Grieve Peace and Neil Hill Peace. Margaret Ferguson died at age 75 years old in 1897 in New Zealand.
Margaret Sharp (Ferguson) Ferguson
1822
Greenock, Inverclyde County, Scotland, United Kingdom
1897
New Zealand
Female
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  • 1822

    Birthday

    1822
    Birthdate
    Greenock, Inverclyde County, Scotland United Kingdom
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  • Personal Life & Family

    Poet. Mother of 12 children
  • 1897

    Death

    1897
    Death date
    Unknown
    Cause of death
    New Zealand
    Death location
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In 1822, in the year that Margaret Sharp (Ferguson) Peace was born, on July 3rd, Charles Babbage published a proposal for a forerunner of the modern computer. Called a "difference engine", it calculated logarithms and trigonometric functions. Babbage wanted to eliminate the errors that occurred through the use of human "calculators" by creating a machine to do the same work. While a prototype was begun, it was never completed.
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In 1852, she was 30 years old when on March 2nd, an experimental steam fire engine was tested in the US. Great Britain had begun using "steam pumpers" after 1829, when they were invented.
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