Charles Babbage is credited for designing and giving birth to the idea of the first automatic digital computer. During the mid-1830s, Charles developed plans for an Analytical Engine. Although it ...

Charles Babbage's early life. At 8 years of age, Charles Babbage was sent to the countryside near Exeter for schooling to help him recover from a fever that had nearly taken his life.

Charles Babbage was one of the fathers of computing, ... These had become very rich and great men during their life, a fact which might be well known. But, after death, ...

In the mid-1800s, Charles Babbage got fed up with doing complex calculations by hand, so he designed what he called a "Difference Engine." He never built the machine in his lifetime, but 150 years ...

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.

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 ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Strange Life of Charles Babbage ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 186 No. 4 (April 1952), p. 66 doi:10.1038 ...

Charles Babbage's autobiography revealed someone larger than life — a "blend of Mr. Pickwick, Mr. Toad, Don Quixote and Leonardo da Vinci." ...