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 ...

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

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 ...

Programmer John Graham-Cumming and former London Science Museum curator Doron Swade, will post plans for the Babbage Analytical Engine online next year in a ‘crowd-sourcing’ project called Plan 28, ...

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 ...

Famous Devonians: Computer pioneer Charles Babbage came from an old Totnes family. Computer pioneer Charles Babbage (1791-1871) came from an old Devon family - his grandfather, Benjamin Babbage, was ...

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, ...

Academics and computer enthusiasts may argue about the details, but to all intents, the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM) or 'Baby' was the world’s first computer – but how did Manchester end up ...

A project to construct one of the earliest mechanical computers based on sketches by its designer, Charles Babbage, has received a major boost. The Science Museum in London has agreed to help by ...