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 ...

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 ...

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

The story of computers started a long, long time ago. The first mechanical calculator was built by Charles Babbage. He worked together with Ada Lovelace, who was the world's first computer programmer.