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 ...

For those who haven’t yet heard, a band of number-crunching nostalgists took the concept design for Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine No. 2, and turned it into a real, fully functional machine. But ...

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 ...

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 ...

Charles Babbage was the quintessential "man ahead of his time". In the mid 19th century the English mathematician and inventor developed the concept of a programmable computer and designed complex, ...

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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 ...

Englishman Charles Babbage (1791–1871), an eccentric, ingenious mathematician, decided that existing tables of computations included far too many errors: the day's textbooks came with errata sheets ...

AT a meeting of the Newcomen Society held at the Science Museum on December 13, Dr. L. H. D. Buxton read a paper on Charles Babbage and his difference engine, during which he gave a sketch of the ...