Wilhelm Schickard builds the first mechanical calculator in 1623 ... Babbage's next idea is the Analytical Engine - a mechanical computer that can solve any mathematical problem.

To fund the creation of Apple's first computer, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs sold... English engineer Charles Babbage (1791-1871) is recognized as the "father of computing" for inventing the first ...

Scientists have created a single unit of quantum information using a superconducting circuit and a vibrating sapphire crystal ...

While the first computers were mechanical and famously ran on vacuum tubes, there were other schools of thought that brought us a different kind of computer that ran on water. The Russian ...

The project was divided into four subsystems: obstacle detection, mechanical computer, locomotion (tracks), and the drivetrain. The obstacle detection system consists of three (left, center ...

A team of physicists at ETH Zürich has built the first-ever working mechanical qubit ... quantum gates to see how well they perform in a computer.

as well as the first microprocessor unit (MPU) ever demonstrated, beating the Intel 4004 by a year. In 1971, one of the designers of the F-14’s Central Air Data Computer (CADC) – [Ray Holt ...