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 ...

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, ...

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 attempts to secure a patent ...

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 ...