A powerful new play by David Pownall about Charles Babbage, one of the great scientific brains of the 19th century. Most people today rely on their laptops and PCs - however, few will have little ...

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 ...

Charles Babbage is renowned worldwide as the designer of the first programmable mechanical computer, in 1834. Babbage’s “Analytical Engine” was designed to solve any equation by simply cranking a ...