The Incas may have created the first computer using a system of ropes and knots. Samuel Basallo's decision resulted in a ball ...

A book written 175 years ago by the world’s first computer programmer has just sold for £114,000 after being found in a box of junk. Only six copies of the 50-page “Sketch of the Analytical Engine” ...

Harry Huskey, who has died aged 101, was one of the last of a generation of scientists who pioneered the computer revolution during and after the Second World War; he worked with Alan Turing, built ...

Google's Doodle is celebrating the Antikythera mechanism, which might just be the first computer. But it might not. The mechanism was found in 1902 – exactly 115 years ago – and the discovery changed ...

COMPUTERS are an integral part of our everyday life and it’s hard to imagine the world without them. But who when was the first one invented? Here’s what we know ...

Reading through most accounts of history, we could be forgiven for assuming that women were not the warriors, the great thinkers nor the pioneering scientists who shaped and changed our world. That ...

Lyons Electronic Office, built from 1949, was one of the world's first computers One of the world's first computers, which "revolutionised" business, could be recreated in virtual reality. Lyons ...