English mathematician Charles Babbage is widely considered to be one of the fathers of computing, having experimented in the mid-19th century with building one of the first mechanical computers. In ...
THE April number of the Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society contains an interesting and very original paper by Mr. Percy E. Ludgate on a proposed analytical machine. Of all calculating ...
A fully-functional Babbage Difference Engine? That's been done and duplicated. But the even more ambitious Babbage Analytical Engine? That's another story completely. Devised by mathematician Charles ...
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 ...
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