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.

Here’s how it works. Scientists have created the world's first mechanical qubit: a tiny, moving system that stores quantum information using vibrations instead of electric currents or light.

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 ...

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 ...

Because of its classified and strategic nature, the U.S. government kept the existence of ENIAC a closely guarded secret ...

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.

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