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 ...

It is one of the greatest pieces of technology ever devised. But like all of his inventions, Charles Babbage’s prototype computer, the Analytical Engine, was never built in his lifetime. Now a science ...

A campaign is underway to construct a never-before-built steam powered computer originally designed by the visionary engineer Charles Babbage. The Analytical Engine was first conceived in 1837, ...

Charles Babbage was born in London on December 26, 1791. He studied and received his master’s in mathematics at the University of Cambridge, before being elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1816.

A campaign to raise money to build mathematician Charles Babbage's steam-powered Analytical Machine, is on its way. Babbage first cooked up the idea of his super-sized prototype computer back in 1837, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...