Lovelace had an imaginative engagement with science, in particular with mathematics, which enabled her to understand the workings and potential of Babbage’s difference engine. In 1833, and during her ...

Ada Lovelace, known as the first computer programmer, was born on Dec. 10, 1815, more than a century before digital electronic computers were developed. Lovelace has been hailed as a model for ...

Charles Babbage in Turin 1840: the data hoard. Read More. This Turbo Escooter Wants to Set a Guinness World Record. With Formula One expertise, Bo plans to break 100 miles per hour on its nearly $ ...

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 ...

ON THE 150th anniversary of the death of Charles Babbage, we retrace the footsteps of the brilliant but irascible British inventor, mathematician and engineer. Host Kenneth Cukier investigates why ...

This is a replica of the portion of a difference engine built by Charles Babbage in 1832. Babbage, an English mathematician, hoped to compute and to print astronomical tables by machine. He proposed ...

When she was a teenager, she became acquainted with the mathematics professor Charles Babbage and studied his work closely, according to findingada.com. Science & Society Picture Library/Getty Images.

A programmable calculator designed by British scientist Charles Babbage. After his Difference Engine failed its test in 1833, Babbage started the design of the Analytical Engine in 1834. Developed ...

In 1840, the English mathematician Charles Babbage visited Europe, spending considerable time in the Italian city of Turin, where he expounded on the principles of his analytical engine. These punch ...

English engineer Charles Babbage (1791-1871) is recognized as the "father of computing" for inventing the first mechanical computer, which paved the path for more elaborate electronic designs ...