It took only 150 years, but British mathematician Charles Babbage has received some measure of vindication. Babbage, who did his best work in the mid-1800s, was never able to build one of his ...

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 ...

Ironic, but just a few weeks before Ada Lovelace Day, celebrating the woman who programmed Charles Babbage's unbuilt Difference Engine, we found that Babbage's design principles may have real 21st ...

Robyn Williams: If you go to the Science Museum in London you can see the recreation of Charles Babbage's design for the first computer back in the middle of the 19th century. We have a version here ...

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 ...

Timelines of computer history usually take us back to the early 20th century and no further. But believe it or not, a tinkerer named Charles Babbage got close enough to creating the world's first ...

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 ...

"The machine works exactly as Babbage intended. There's not a single logical design flaw in the entire design," says its builder Doron Swade. And 248 gears of iron, brass and steel. The first digital ...

Charles Babbage, the man whom many consider to be the father of modern computing, never got to complete any of his life's work. The Victorian gentleman was a brilliant mathematician, but he wasn't ...

OVER the years, Babbage has been fascinated by start-up companies. Start-ups bring novel technology to the marketplace in the hope of making a fortune for their creators by making life richer, easier, ...