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 ...

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 ...

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.

Though Silicon Valley may be the heart of the commercialisation of all things digital, it is the British who can proudly boast having invented the computer. Indeed, so proud are the British of the ...

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, ...

Frustrated by human error, mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage designed a machine to perform mathematical functions and automatically print the results. Library of Congress When today’s number ...

Charles Babbage designed an automatic computer more than 100 years before the first electronic ones. None of his inventions was completed in his lifetime, but engineers at the Science Museum finally ...

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 ...

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 ...

Not even IMDB seems to know whether Zooey Deschanel has been cast as Ada Lovelace in Enchantress of Numbers, but Lovelace and Babbage’s Analytical Engine computer shall be finally built—if ...