In an alternate reality Charles Babbage’s difference engine and Ada Lovelace’s computer programming led us into a world filled with brass-keyed laptops with phonograph speaker systems. Several artists ...

description After losing the backing of the British government, Babbage continued work on an even more sophisticated device, an Analytic Engine, which would have been a true computer, capable of ...

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In real life, Charles Babbage was a relatively unknown inventor who pioneered early computers. In modern alternate reality fiction, Babbage is a mad genius and steampunk icon. Here are some authors ...

In 1822 the English Mathematician Charles Babbage had an idea for a machine that would perform mathematical calculations rapidly and infallibly. This was long before the age of electrical circuitry, ...

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Novelists William Gibson and Bruce Sterling invented the genre of “steampunk” with their 1990 collaborative novel, “The Difference Engine.” The novel featured as a main character Charles Babbage, ...

But Steampunk isn't just an old-timey look slapped onto modern technology, says Ann VanderMeer, co-editor with her husband Jeff of "Steampunk," an anthology of Victorian-inspired fiction. "Steampunk ...