German engineer and inventor Konrad Zuse is considered as the inventor of the modern computer but was frustrated in his ...

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 ...

Give money to have the world's first computer, Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, built, and in return you might get your name engraved on one of the thousands of brass cogs that comprise the ...

Excerpted from Beyond Eureka! The Rocky Roads to Innovating by Marylene Delbourg-Delphis, with a foreword by Guy Kawasaki (Georgetown University Press). Lord Byron’s daughter, Ada Lovelace (1815–52), ...