Robyn Williams: If you go to the Science Museum in London you can see the recreation of Charles Babbage's design for the first computer back in the middle of the 19th century. We have a version here ...

In 1837, British mathematician Charles Babbage produced the very first description of a computer. He called it the analytical engine and spent the rest of his life refining, but never completing, it.

The first ever computer manual which was written by a Victorian woman 175 years ago has been sold at auction for nearly £100,000 - nearly 20 times its expected price. The edition, 'Sketch of the ...

THE computer is the most versatile invention ever made, and most of us carry one around with us all the time. But who do we have to thank for creating the very first computer? Please provide a valid ...

The second 8,000 piece Difference Engine No.2 is off to California from the Science Museum. It is 3.3m long, 2m high, weighs five tonnes and can calculate polynomials to 31 decimal places. The second ...

Programmer John Graham-Cumming and former London Science Museum curator Doron Swade, will post plans for the Babbage Analytical Engine online next year in a ‘crowd-sourcing’ project called Plan 28, ...

Charles Babbage's dream failed to take off in the 19th century, but it's making a comeback in the 21st, says Roger Highfield A section of the Difference Engine, a mechanical calculator, designed by ...

The Analytical Engine followed Babbage's work on the Difference Engine A UK campaign to build a truck-sized, prototype computer first envisaged in 1837 is gathering steam. More than 1,600 people have ...

Benedict Cumberbatch’s portrait of a halting, frustrated, brilliant Alan Turing in The Imitation Game, 2014 has beamed the Cambridge mathematician’s unique contributions to modern digital computing ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. On July 8, 1835, an English nobleman, the 8th Baron King, was married in what was, by all accounts, a pleasant ...