In the final weekend of its run at Long Beach Playhouse, “Ada and the Engine” may offer a quiet respite from all the July 4 ...

Charles Barger and his assistant automatic rifle gunner, Jesse Funk, received the Medal of Honor for their actions during the ...

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When Lovelace met Babbage… On June 5, 1833, a chance encounter allowed Ada Lovelace to become a life-long friend of Charles Babbage, often considered the father of computing. This meeting led ...

Babbage was a mathematician, inventor and mechanical engineer who spent his life devoted to those subjects. That said, he was a polymath whose inventions and discoveries range widely throughout ...

Charles Babbage was an extremely intelligent man and during the time of 1828 to 1839, he was Lucian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge. Not only was Babbage dedicated to his teachings (although ...

Charles Babbage was a mathematician and polymath born in 1791, the son of a wealthy textile merchant. He studied mathematics at Cambridge and eventually became a Lucasian professor of mathematics. At ...

Lovelace had first met Babbage when she was just 17, in one of his celebrated London salons, and the two had kept up a lively correspondence over the years. When she hit her life's crossroads in the ...

12-year-old Ada, who is especially interested in mechanics, wants to invent a flying machine - unfortunately, with no success. But the love for machines is the foundation of Ada Lovelace's later ...

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 ...