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Babbage's steampunk computer takes step toward reality

...London's Science Museum has begun work to underpin the creation of Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, a steam-powered prototype computer first imagined 170... Read more

22 September, 2011 by David Meyer

When was the first app? Try 19th century France

...not. Later on in the 19th century, English inventor and computing pioneer Charles Babbage would borrow the idea of using punched cards to program his... Read more

3 January, 2012 by silicon.com staff
Alan Turing: 10 ideas beyond Enigma

Alan Turing: 10 ideas beyond Enigma

...machines such as that of John Atanasoff ("the first electronic digital computer"), Charles Babbage (the Analytical Engine from 1837), Konrad Zuse, or the Turing Bombe... Read more

3 March, 2012 by S Barry Cooper

Do we need a computer museum in Cambridge?

...Cambridge has helped produce many of our most significant computer scientists -- including Charles Babbage and Alan Turing -- and Acorn and Sinclair made it the heart... Read more

7 March, 2011
London's Science Museum links tech history

London's Science Museum links tech history

...1824-1918) and based on the designs of his father, computing pioneer Charles Babbage (1791-1871). The machine was intended to add, subtract, divide and... Read more

4 March, 2011 by Jon Yeomans
Lovelace & Babbage 1.0.2

Lovelace & Babbage 1.0.2

...and wickedly witty" Wired.com's Geek DadScience heroes Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage fight crime, clients, street-musicians and poetry in a gadget-filled... Read more

13 October, 2011

Photos: Datacentre evolution, BT fibre, Nasa tech and iPad vs Galaxy Tab

...Among items being sold was lot 57, shown above, a paper by Charles Babbage. Babbage was the first person to put forward the idea of... Read more

30 November, 2010 by silicon.com staff

Photos: Apple I, Enigma machine and Turing papers to be auctioned at Christie's

Lot 57 is an offprint of a paper by Charles Babbage, the English mathematician, philosopher and engineer credited with first discussing the... Read more

11 November, 2010 by Tim Ferguson
Babbage's Difference Engine No 2 brought to life

Babbage's Difference Engine No 2 brought to life

Charles Babbage was widely considered a difficult personality who lacked the managerial skills... Read more

12 May, 2008 by Kara Tsuboi

Name your top tech heroes

Following this week's news that Charles Babbage, Alan Turing and Tim Berners-Lee have all been voted onto... Read more

23 August, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

Tech heroes in line for 'Greatest Briton' award

...rank among the hundred greatest ever Britons, according to the UK public. Charles Babbage, Alan Turing and Tim Berners-Lee have all been shortlisted by... Read more

22 August, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

Charles Babbage: The Father of Computing

A great Briton? Charles Babbage, Alan Turing and Tim Berners Lee have all been shortlisted by... Read more

22 August, 2002 by CNET Networks

India's high-tech cities, web whispers, Babbage's Difference engine and more...

...Myhrvold commissioned London's Science Museum to make him a version of Charles Babbage's famous Difference engine, a machine designed to mechanically calculate polynomial... Read more

29 April, 2008 by Natasha Lomas

Computer Science At the London Science Museum

...not saying it wasn't interesting because it was. There some excellent Charles Babbage Machines and Pegasus that was about it. The biggest issue i... Read more

9 December, 2007

Tech history under the hammer

...the historic UNIVAC computer. The auction also includes personal letters penned by Charles Babbage, credited by many experts as the father of computing for his... Read more

3 February, 2005 by Matt Hines

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