Building Complex Machines Using LEGO®

Including Babbage's difference engine and the Antikythera mechanism.

to antikythera babbage lego mechanica retrocomputing retrotech ... on 26 July 2014

The Little Engines that Could've: The Calculating Machines of Charles Babbage

Good overview of Babbage's computing work, with lots of quotations and references to contemporary text. (It helps that Babbage was an entertaining writer.)

to babbage history mechanica retrocomputing ... on 27 February 2011

The Analytical Engine Table of Contents

An excellent set of Analytical Engine resources, complete with an emulator and a set of example programs. I'll strike that idea off the to-do list, then.

to babbage emulator mechanica retrocomputing retrotech ... on 01 October 2010

John Graham-Cumming: Babbage's Debugger

How Charles Babbage came very close to inventing UML.

to babbage design diagrams mechanica retrocomputing retrotech ... on 22 September 2010

Robroy

Mostly of interest for documents about Babbage. Also boatbuilding.

to babbage boats history retrocomputing ... on 23 February 2009