Do you remember Charles Babbage from the first chapter of your earliest computer textbooks? This brilliant mathematician, ...

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 ...

Charles Babbage is known for creating the first... ? Talking to attendees of a launch event for new infrastructure technology in 1999, CEO and co-founder of Sun Microsystems Scott McNealy ...

From this year, December 26, the birth anniversary of Charles Babbage [an English mathematician and inventor who is credited with having conceived the first automatic digital computer] will be ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Strange Life of Charles Babbage ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 186 No. 4 (April 1952), p. 66 doi:10.1038 ...

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.

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 ...

Joseph-Marie Jacquard invents an automatic loom controlled by punch cards. Charles Babbage conceives of a "Difference Engine" in 1820 or 1821. It is a massive steam-powered mechanical calculator ...

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.