Created by Charles Babbage, the Analytical Engine was a general-purpose, completely program-controlled, mechanical digital computer with no human intervention. It was designed to be programmed using ...

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 ...

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 ...

The construction of modern computers, logically similar to Charles Babbage's design, have changed the whole of mathematics and it is even not an exaggeration to say that they have changed the whole ...

A note on the value of money in the nineteenth century -- pt. 1. The difference engine -- ch. 1. The tables crisis -- ch. 2. A personal question -- ch. 3. Tragedy and decline -- ch. 4. Miracles and ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. You may know who Steve Jobs and Bill ...