Do you remember Charles Babbage from the first chapter of your earliest computer textbooks? This brilliant mathematician, philosopher, inventor, and mechanical engineer whose visionary ideas gave ...

He is Charles Babbage, the man who more than 150 years ago first faintly glimpsed today's computer age and strove to reach it. The Difference Engine is a calculator. It prepares numerical tables ...

To fund the creation of Apple's first computer, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs sold... English engineer Charles Babbage (1791-1871) is recognized as the "father of computing" for inventing the first ...

A programmable calculator designed by British scientist Charles Babbage. After his Difference Engine failed its test in 1833, Babbage started the design of the Analytical Engine in 1834.

World's first computer book written 175 years ago by female programming pioneer Ada Lovelace found in box of junk ...

The 19th century amateur mathematician, best known for her detailed notes on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, is often held up as a symbol for women in science. Never more so now than in the ...