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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers in Britain are about to embark on a 10-year, multimillion-dollar project to build a computer — but their goal is neither dazzling analytical power nor lightning speed. Indeed, if they ...

*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 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 ...

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 ...

English mathematician Charles Babbage is widely considered to be one of the fathers of computing, having experimented in the mid-19th century with building one of the first mechanical computers. In ...

A Victorian-era device might have jumpstarted the Computer Age more than 100 years before the first personal computers of Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. That century-old dream has inspired a British ...