The Babbage Engine Exhibit opens May 10 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. The central artifact of the exhibit, a faithful construction of Englishman Charles Babbage's Difference ...

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 ...

Computer programmer and author John Graham-Cumming is trying to raise at least Pounds 500,000 (US$800,000) to build a working version of Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine. Trial model of a part of ...

Although you now have immense amounts of high-precision numeric-computing power at your finger tips, such power and ease are recent developments. In the book The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and ...

Update: This story has been corrected to reflect that the date of the public opening of the exhibit is May 10. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--"Excuse me, Richard, we have a very large parcel." With those ...

Charles Babbage was a genius inventor who designed the first computers, but never saw them come to fruition. While his smaller works have been functionally reproduced, his most ambitious was the ...

Charles Babbage (1791-1871) wanted to invent an automated way to generate mathematical tables that were used during the Victorian era for everything from engineering and astronomy to banking and ...

As you might expect from its name, the "Difference Engine" is a strangely difficult object to describe. You might start by imagining the side of a large crib with uprights ringed by small metal wheels ...

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.