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 ...

Over a hundred years ago, Charles Babbage foresaw the power of mechanical computing with his ambitious designs for the Difference and Analytical Engines. Despite facing skepticism and practical issues ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...