*One of the many Gothic aspects of the Difference Engine was that the device, which was never successfully built, was never quite entirely dead, either. Babbage's youngest son, a career military ...

THE electronic computer, young as it is, has come to play a role in modern life something like that played in other times by the oracles of Greece and Rome. There is a widespread belief that if one ...

Why he's important: He's building a missing part in the history of the PC With more than 40,000 moving parts and at nearly five metres long, Charles Babbage's steam-powered Analytical Engine is ...

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. Developed in ...

To most people, the phrase “electronic computer” conjures up a baffling maze of wires, transistors, magnetic tapes, punch cards, and the like, which can somehow or other be used to solve problems of ...

A few nights ago, [Chris Fenton] was hanging out at NYC Resistor putting in some time on his electromechanical computer project. You might remember [Chris] from his tiny Cray that he’s putting an OS ...