What is it like to be me? Hmmm, how about busy… confused… enthused… eternally optimistic… blessed with a short-term memory with regard to unhappy things ...

The analytical engine that started construction in the early 1800s but was never finished may finally be completed someday. One of the world’s first programmable computers was conceived by Charles ...

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 ...

What would you do with a spare $640,000? John Graham-Cunning would build a steam-powered computer invented in the 1830s. And instead of waiting around for this mysterious spare money to show up, he's ...

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, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Graphic biography is a thriving genre, featuring subjects who range from Trotsky to Amelia Earhart. Neither of ...

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 ...

*I wonder why I'm hearing about this through a press release in Montenegro. Because I'm in Croatia right now? No! Can't be! It's because almighty steampunk girdles the earth! *Besides, in Montenegro ...