The Babbage Engine Exhibit opens May 10 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. The central artifact of the exhibit, a faithful construction of Englishman Charles Babbage's Difference ...

Do you ever wonder who you should thank for the laptops and desktops that make your life easier every day? It's Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor and not just the companies that are ...

As you might expect from its name, the "Difference Engine" is a strangely difficult object to describe. You might start by imagining the side of a large crib with uprights ringed by small metal wheels ...

A powerful new play by David Pownall about Charles Babbage, one of the great scientific brains of the 19th century. Most people today rely on their laptops and PCs - however, few will have little ...

German engineer and inventor Konrad Zuse is considered as the inventor of the modern computer but was frustrated in his ...

Charles Babbage is renowned worldwide as the designer of the first programmable mechanical computer, in 1834. Babbage’s “Analytical Engine” was designed to solve any equation by simply cranking a ...

The question of who invented the first computer and when was the computer invented has a complex answer that spans centuries of innovation. Many people assume a single inventor and a specific date, ...

In 1847, at the age of just twenty-seven, Ada Lovelace became the world’s first computer programmer—more than a century before the first computer was even built. This almost sounds like a myth, or the ...