Charles Babbage designed an automatic computer more than 100 years before the first electronic ones. None of his inventions was completed in his lifetime, but engineers at the Science Museum finally ...

to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. British researchers announced plans this week to finally build Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, a gear-based proto-computer ...

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 ...

It is one of the greatest pieces of technology ever devised. But like all of his inventions, Charles Babbage’s prototype computer, the Analytical Engine, was never built in his lifetime. Now a science ...

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, ...

A steam-powered computer designed by the 19th century mathematician Charles Babbage could finally be built after a campaign was launched to bring his dream to life. A section of Charles Babbage's ...

Doron Swade is behind the creation of the famed Difference Engine No 2 The world of computing could have been very different to that of today had a machine that was designed over 150 years ago been ...

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 ...

With Aphex Twin’s latest release available as a £250 Perspex vinyl limited-edition (covered over on Creative Review here), and a recent exhibition celebrating collector’s edition releases such as The ...

The first ever computer manual which was written by a Victorian woman 175 years ago has been sold at auction for nearly £100,000 - nearly 20 times its expected price. The edition, 'Sketch of the ...