Yesterday marked the anniversary of the 1871 death of Charles Babbage, the English mathematician and inventor credited with conceiving plans for the world's first programmable non-digital computer. It ...

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 ...

It took only 150 years, but British mathematician Charles Babbage has received some measure of vindication. Babbage, who did his best work in the mid-1800s, was never able to build one of his ...

Ironic, but just a few weeks before Ada Lovelace Day, celebrating the woman who programmed Charles Babbage's unbuilt Difference Engine, we found that Babbage's design principles may have real 21st ...

"The machine works exactly as Babbage intended. There's not a single logical design flaw in the entire design," says its builder Doron Swade. And 248 gears of iron, brass and steel. The first digital ...

Robyn Williams: If you go to the Science Museum in London you can see the recreation of Charles Babbage's design for the first computer back in the middle of the 19th century. We have a version here ...

OVER the years, Babbage has been fascinated by start-up companies. Start-ups bring novel technology to the marketplace in the hope of making a fortune for their creators by making life richer, easier, ...

This multifaceted polymath was the first to build a computing machine. His pioneering work led to the creation of a calculating machine. He also established the Astronomical Society. Born in England ...

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, ...

THE computer is the most versatile invention ever made, and most of us carry one around with us all the time. But who do we have to thank for creating the very first computer? Please provide a valid ...