Slow, error-prone calculations by hand were unavoidable in the early 19th century, yet even small mistakes could ruin the ...

Why he's important: He's building a missing part in the history of the PC With more than 40,000 moving parts and at nearly five metres long, Charles Babbage's steam-powered Analytical Engine is ...

A fully-functional Babbage Difference Engine? That's been done and duplicated. But the even more ambitious Babbage Analytical Engine? That's another story completely. Devised by mathematician Charles ...

English mathematician Charles Babbage is widely considered to be one of the fathers of computing, having experimented in the mid-19th century with building one of the first mechanical computers. In ...

You know you want this badass Victorian scientist to glower at you from a corner of your desk accompanied by her massive steampunkish Analytical Engine and an oversized spanner. Ada Lovelace and her ...

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 ...

*One of the many Gothic aspects of the Difference Engine was that the device, which was never successfully built, was never quite entirely dead, either. Babbage's youngest son, a career military ...