I have always been interested in electronics engineering ingenuity used to solve “impossible” problems. One such problem was the task of deciphering the German Army's most secret transmissions during ...

When the story of an invention is repeated as Received Opinion for the younger generation it is so often presented as a single one-off event, with a named inventor. Before the event there was no ...

When we talk about a “computer” today, we generally picture an electronic machine that can perform various kinds of mathematical operations, manage its program flow, move data from one place to ...

Google has posted a look back at Colossus, the world’s first programmable electronic computer. Google has posted a look back at Colossus, the world’s first programmable electronic computer. Google has ...

Before transistors or microchips, the earliest computers relied on vacuum tubes — glass bulbs that glowed like small light bulbs and acted as electronic switches. Each tube could represent a one or ...