Charles Babbage was born on 26 December 1791, probably in London, the son of a banker. He was often unwell as a child and was educated mainly at home. By the time he went to Cambridge University ...

Meet Victorian London's most dynamic duo: Charles Babbage, the unrealized inventor of the computer, and his accomplice, Ada, Countess of Lovelace, the peculiar protoprogrammer and daughter of Lord ...

Polymath Charles Babbage (inventor, engineer, and mathematician, considered by some the "father of the computer") after reading the poem wrote a letter to Tennyson, suggesting that the verse ...