A powerful new play by David Pownall about Charles Babbage, one of the great scientific brains of the 19th century. Most people today rely on their laptops and PCs - however, few will have little ...

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 ...

German engineer and inventor Konrad Zuse is considered as the inventor of the modern computer but was frustrated in his ...

The question of who invented the first computer and when was the computer invented has a complex answer that spans centuries of innovation. Many people assume a single inventor and a specific date, ...

Charles Babbage is renowned worldwide as the designer of the first programmable mechanical computer, in 1834. Babbage’s “Analytical Engine” was designed to solve any equation by simply cranking a ...

A century before the dawn of the computer age, Ada Lovelace imagined the modern-day, general-purpose computer. It could be programmed to follow instructions, she wrote in 1843. It could not just ...

In 1847, at the age of just twenty-seven, Ada Lovelace became the world’s first computer programmer—more than a century before the first computer was even built. This almost sounds like a myth, or the ...

But it wasn’t an engraving. It was a sheet of finely woven silk – a thousand threads to the inch – so subtle and detailed ...