The Gutenberg Bible ranks among the most prized of rare books, but within three centuries of its printing around 1455, its version of Scripture was considered obsolete and its creator, Johannes ...

Jokes aside: Here’s what we really know about the 15th-century figure currently appearing (sort of) on Broadway in “Gutenberg! The Musical!,” starring Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells.

He is Charles Babbage, the man who more than 150 years ago first faintly glimpsed today's computer age and strove to reach it. The Difference Engine is a calculator.

British researchers announced plans this week to finally build Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, a gear-based proto-computer conceived of but never constructed by the 19th century inventor.

Altogether Babbage spent some £6,000 of his own and some £17,000 allotted by the Government, on his first attempts, and then in 1842 the Government decided against any further expenditure.

IN 1837 British mathematician Charles Babbage described a mechanical computer that later became known as the Analytical Engine.