To fund the creation of Apple's first computer, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs sold... English engineer Charles Babbage (1791-1871) is recognized as the "father of computing" for inventing the first ...

Do you remember Charles Babbage from the first chapter of your earliest computer textbooks? This brilliant mathematician, philosopher, inventor, and mechanical engineer whose visionary ideas gave ...

the Gavilan SC was an early laptop computer and was the first to actually be called such when marketed to consumers in May 1983. Priced at $4,000, the first ever "laptop" weighed 9 pounds (4 kg ...

The first mechanical calculator was built by Charles Babbage. He worked together with Ada Lovelace, who was the world's first computer programmer. Many years later, Alan Turing invented a new way ...

From this year, December 26, the birth anniversary of Charles Babbage [an English mathematician and inventor who is credited with having conceived the first automatic digital computer] will be ...