Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. In 1642, French mathematician Blaise Pascal invented a calculating machine that could add ...

Charles Babbage's Difference Engine, designed in the 1820s, is considered the first "mechanical" computer in history, according to the Science Museum in the U.K. Powered by steam with a hand crank ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE An early computer at Seattle’s Living Computers Museum + Labs.

The museum expanded in 2016 with the addition of first floor exhibits featuring current technology, as well as three hands-on computer science learning labs. It then took on the name Living ...