Dive into the Museum’s past exhibits to relive the stories and discoveries that continue to inspire the future of computing. Over the years, we’ve curated a wide range of exhibits and displays that have explored the transformative impact of technology on society, culture, and industries worldwide.
From groundbreaking devices to influential software, each exhibit has offered unique insights into the pioneers, inventions, and milestones that have shaped the digital world we live in today.
The history of computer chess is a five-decade long quest to solve a difficult intellectual problem. The story starts in the earliest days of computing and reflects the general advances in hardware and software over this period. This on-line exhibition contains documents, images, artifacts, oral histories, moving images and software related to computer chess from 1945 to 1997.
The first complete Babbage Engine was completed in London in 2002, 153 years after it was designed. Difference Engine No. 2, built faithfully to the original drawings. We invite you to learn more about this extraordinary object, its designer Charles Babbage and the team of people who undertook to build it.
The story of computing is epic. It’s driven by the human passion for tinkering, inventing and solving difficult problems where accidents and luck can be as important as brilliant engineering. Explore the revolution that has changed our world.
This comprehensive chronology of technology and culture includes important people, inventions, and events of the computing revolution as well as untold stories and hidden histories.
From the first documented semiconductor effect in 1833 to the transition from transistors to integrated circuits in the 1960s and 70s, explore milestones in the development of the extraordinary silicon chips that power the information age.