The machine is the Analytical Engine, and the famous Charles Babbage created it. Babbage made several changes to his first computer, the specialized Difference Engine, in 1834.

Campaign under way to use Charles Babbage's original blueprints to create a working version of his steam-powered Analytical Engine, the world's first programmable non-digital computer.

19th century inventor Charles Babbage never lived to finish his analytical engine, a punchcard computer that was decades ahead of its time, but now Babbage aficionados are finally building this ...

Babbage was obsessed with creating a machine that would be able to carry out complex calculations to a high degree of accuracy. ... Campaign to build Charles Babbage's 'Analytical Engine' computer.

Devised by mathematician Charles Babbage in the 1830s, the Analytical Engine can be considered to be the first programmable computer -- or at least the first notion of one -- but Babbage's plans ...

The early computer concept — a brass-and-iron machine the size of a small steam locomotive — came from the mind of Charles Babbage, a famed mathematician who tinkered with different designs ...

Long before Bill Gates there was Charles Babbage,who invented the earliest calculator, the Difference Engines #1 and #2. Between 1846 and 1849 he also built a printing machine to eliminate humans ...