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Charles Babbage was the quintessential "man ahead of his time". In the mid 19th century the English mathematician and inventor developed the concept of a programmable computer and designed complex, ...

LONDON, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- A campaign in Britain to build a room-sized prototype computer first envisaged in 1837 is gathering momentum, computer enthusiasts say. Offers of money and support to build a ...

A campaign to raise money to build mathematician Charles Babbage's steam-powered Analytical Machine, is on its way. Babbage first cooked up the idea of his super-sized prototype computer back in 1837, ...

Researchers in Britain are about to embark on a 10-year, multimillion-dollar project to build a computer — but their goal is neither dazzling analytical power nor lightning speed. Indeed, if they ...

Though Silicon Valley may be the heart of the commercialisation of all things digital, it is the British who can proudly boast having invented the computer. Indeed, so proud are the British of the ...