On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...

Technology may be advancing and improving at a fearsome rate, but few developments today can match the design, charm and sheer weirdness of the inventions of yesteryear Today we can interact with ...

This was formed from the idea that something is either true or false, at which he arrived by writing an algebra that incorporated logic into mathematics. In the 1930s, researchers saw that Boole's two ...

On May 7, 1981, influential physicist Richard Feynman gave a keynote speech at Caltech. Feynman opened his talk by politely rejecting the very notion of a keynote speech, instead saying that he had ...

While Americans may have stolen the computing limelight since the end of the Second World War, Brits have been responsible for many of its founding principles, some going back to the 19th century, and ...