In autumn of 1840, Charles Babbage arrived in Turin for a meeting of Italian scientists, where he gave the only public explanation of the workings of his “Analytical Engine.” This machine was the ...

My fear, on picking this up, was that it would be a tiresome reduction of the work of two serious scientists to silliness. It’s been described as “steampunk”, which sets alarm bells ringing. I need ...

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 ...

In 1837, British mathematician Charles Babbage produced the very first description of a computer. He called it the analytical engine and spent the rest of his life refining, but never completing, it.

Created by Charles Babbage, the Analytical Engine was a general-purpose, completely program-controlled, mechanical digital computer with no human intervention. It was designed to be programmed using ...

It was coincidence that Monday marked the anniversary of the death in 1871 of Charles Babbage, the English mathematician and inventor credited with conceiving plans for the world's first programmable ...

Do you ever wonder who you should thank for the laptops and desktops that make your life easier every day? It's Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor and not just the companies that are ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a replica of the portion of a ...

"Charles Babbage completed plans for an elaborate, all-mechanical calculator in 1849. His Difference Engine #2 was so complicated, with more than 8,000 separate parts, that it was never built during ...