Computers Collection

BABBAGEs ENGINE (1)
Babbages Difference Engine - he was continually modifying the design, as with modern computers, so it is not possible to date this precisely

Central Computer / Harwell
The Central Computer at Harwell serves over 600 users and has 200 typewriter terminals distributed around the site. This view shows the IBM 360/75

BABBAGEs ENGINE (2)
Charles Babbages Difference Engine, an instrument which went beyond simple calculation to embody some of the principles of computers

Computer Envisaged 1927
A COMPUTER, as envisaged in 1927 [illustration to The Thought Machine by Ammianus Marcellinus]

NASA, Houston, Texas, United States of America, North America

Computer 1960S
A compact modern computer with built in screen

NASA, Houston, Texas, United States of America, North America

DOG. Basset hound at a laptop
JD-19901 DOG. Basset hound at a laptop John Daniels Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

New York Stock Exchange trading, 1980s C016 / 2381
New York Stock Exchange trading. Banners and computer workstations on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)

Illustration, blue diskette

Young man with laptop sitting on steps

Promotional photograph for the IBM 1410
A female computer technician sits at an IBM 1410, in a promotional photograph for this business computer system. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Adjusting a tape storage device
A computer technician adjusts the large reels on a computer tape storage device. A promotional photograph for ICT. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

At the British Ship Research Association, Wallsend on Tyne, the biggest automatic drawing machine - operated by a computer - in the country is in operation

Akihabara electronics district, Tokyo, Kanto region, Japan

Bull Market
Jay Myrdal

Calculating machine by Mr Thomas de Colmar, Paris (engraving)
8634944 Calculating machine by Mr Thomas de Colmar, Paris (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Calculating machine by Mr Thomas de Colmar, Paris)

Page from Useful Artistic Furniture, c.1900 (colour litho)
3084443 Page from Useful Artistic Furniture, c.1900 (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); 23.8x35 cm; The Geffrye Museum of the Home, London, UK; (add.info.: Useful Artistic Furniture)

Type AN 5835-1 dead reckoning computer owned by Fenton B. Sands, 1944-1948. Creator: J. B
Flight computer belonging to Tuskegee Airman Dr. Fenton B. Sands, an African-American First Lieutenant Navigator-Bombardier with the 617th Bombardment Squadron of the 477th Composite Group during

The Liverpool Echo office, Old Hall Street, before reorganisation. December 1992

The Liverpool Echo newsroom, Old Hall Street, Liverpool. 3rd December 1992

Loyal Dragon Computers supporter, Darren Waters, at his computer. Dragon, the computer which began its life in Wales was taken over by Spanish company Eurohard in the autumn of 1984. Circa 1986

Marketing assistant Wendy Barker with the computer that has filled Dragons order book for four months. January 1983

Virtual Reality Desktop Computer, Demonstration, Thursday 21st May 1992

The London heats of Britains first national space invaders championships. The event attracted 350 dedicated players. Lisa Penry wears antennae. 19th April 1981

Man monitoring traffic, Liverpool, 10th January 1964

Computer Centre at Barker and Dobson Confectioner, Liverpool, Circa 1970

1970s Computer Centre, Liverpool, Published 18th May 1979

Mr Morris talks with operators at new computer centre, Liverpool, Circa 1970

Computer Services Centre Ltd, new centre in Long Lane, Aintree, Liverpool, Circa 1970. Invoices in process of being printed and ready to send out

Computers at Leasco Offices, Reading, September 1980

Joe Telford discusses programming with staff at Pentland Primary School, Billingham. December 1987

The ICI expenses project team (left to right) Joanne Bell, Andrea Robinson, Chris Hopwood, Cheryl Goody, Suzanne Mcloughlin, Carol Benson and Neil Bowman

Computer operator JLP01_09_831757
Eastgate Shopping Centre, Southernhay, Basildon, Essex. An office worker seated at a Datapoint 1550 computer, with a view through a window overlooking the construction of the new Eastgate Shopping

Computer Room JLP01_08_069814
Durham University, Science Laboratories, Durham, County Durham. A computer room in the mathematics department at Durham University

Sugar refinery control desk JLP01_10_12829
Newark Sugar Factory, Great North Road, Muskham, Newark, Newark and Sherwood, Nottinghamshire. A team of staff working in a control room at Newark Sugar Factory

Dagenham Works JLP01_10_00603A
FORD MOTOR WORKS, BARKING AND DAGENHAM, GREATER LONDON. A man seated at a control desk at the Ford Motor Company Works, operating a row of Munck cranes

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Tim Berners-Lee, 2010s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Tim Berners-Lee, 2010s, (2023). English computer scientist Berners-Lee (born 1955), also known as TimBL, is best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Tim Berners-Lee, 2010s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Tim Berners-Lee, 2010s, (2023). English computer scientist Berners-Lee (born 1955), also known as TimBL, is best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Tim Berners-Lee sitting with a laptop, 2010s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Tim Berners-Lee sitting with a laptop, 2010s, (2023). English computer scientist Berners-Lee (born 1955), also known as TimBL

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Tim Berners-Lee, 2010s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Tim Berners-Lee, 2010s, (2023). English computer scientist Berners-Lee (born 1955), also known as TimBL, is best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web

Chimp with computer
Becky the chimpanzee (18 months old and raised at Twycross Zoo)sits on a cushion next to a IBM AT-5170 computer, touching the keyboard with her hand. Date: 1987

Archway of the Great Wall of China at the Nankan Pass, China, Historic, digital reproduction of an original from
1900s, 19th-century, arcades, arch, arches, archway, asian, asiatic, attraction, attractions, black, black-and-white, black-white, building, buildings, china, chinese, colonade, column

Horizontal triple-expansion steam engine with Elsner control from the Goerlitz machine factory
1900s, 19th-century, activities, activity, archive, art work, arts, artwork, artworks, black, black-and-white, black-white, building, buildings, commemorating, commemoration, computer game

Lady clerks tabulating the American Census Returns (b / w photo)
5997988 Lady clerks tabulating the American Census Returns (b/w photo) by American Photographer (19th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info)

Portrait of Augusta Ada King (1815 - 1852), Countess of Lovelace (engraving)
875072 Portrait of Augusta Ada King (1815 - 1852), Countess of Lovelace (engraving). by Chalon, Alfred-Edward (1780-1860); Private Collection; (add.info.: Augusta Ada King)

Portrait of Augusta Ada King (1815 - 1852), Countess of Lovelace (colour engraving)
875071 Portrait of Augusta Ada King (1815 - 1852), Countess of Lovelace (colour engraving). by Chalon, Alfred-Edward (1780-1860); Private Collection; (add.info.: Augusta Ada King)

Screen, 1885-90 (walnut)
2972971 Screen, 1885-90 (walnut) by English School, (19th century); The Geffrye Museum of the Home, London, UK; eGeffrye Museum; English, out of copyright

Silkworkers in a workshop in Lyon using a Jacquard loom, c. 1880 (engraving)
485176 Silkworkers in a workshop in Lyon using a Jacquard loom, c.1880 (engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Portrait of Augusta Ada King (1815 - 1852), Countess of Lovelace (engraving)
875068 Portrait of Augusta Ada King (1815 - 1852), Countess of Lovelace (engraving). by Chalon, Alfred-Edward (1780-1860); Private Collection; (add.info.: Augusta Ada King)

The result of the destruction of the environment
Takashi Suzuki

Brave New World
Simon Walker

Beryl Warner in the Control Room at Cambridge Fire Station, 3rd March 1986

Ministry of Social Security. 41 year old James Newton at the computer which has a file on every working person and pensioner in Britain. Long Benton, Newcastle Upon Tyne. 13th April 1967

Ministry of Social Security. Pictured, staff and the control section of the computer which has a file on every working person and pensioner in Britain. Long Benton, Newcastle Upon Tyne

Queen Elizabeth II visits Manchester. The Queen watches a demonstration of the computerised digital retrieval system at John Rylands Library, by library assistant Alison Morris. 5th May 1982

Space Invader machines in a pub. 1980

Ann Boardman aged 20, changes a tape reel on the computer, Circa 1970

Liverpool Corporations new assistant, a three hundred thousand computer, makes its debut when the Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Alderman Herbert Allen put the machine into operation by pressing a button

Newlands School, Middlesbrough, 12th March 1998. Pupils are producing their own newspaper, The Orbiter, for a competition

A quartet of whiz kids are getting a wider audience for their work. Hardware and software designed by fifth formers Graham Barker, Geoffrey Bruton

Dalton Junior school now has a computer for each of its four year groups, thanks to fundraising efforts by parents. Some 2

Stan Kelly-Bootle, author, songwriter and known for achieving the first postgraduate diploma in computer science (1954), born 1929, died 16th April 2014

Skelmanthorpe First and Nursery School has been presented with £; 700 worth of computer equipment. They received new disk drives to replace their old cassettes

Students at Coventrys Henley College are benefiting from a new hi-tech learning college. The new Learning Resources Centre - which combines the functions of a library

Thank you for our new computer... pupils of Crosland Moor Infant School express their appreciation to Mrs Helen Mitchell, personnel manager of Standard Fireworks

New Silver Street development, Stockton, 12th December 1988

Foxford School, Longford, Coventry, England. 29th September 1987. Grange Road, Coventry, West Midlands CV6 6BB. Pictured. Business Studies Computer Room

Busy in the new computer room at Moor End High School are at the back Rebecca Walters, Robina Parveen and Mr Greg Gilbert, head of computing at the school

Pupils at Beech Junior, Infant and Nursery School at Golcar get a feel for their new computer. 20th January 1986

Courtaulds design department, where the introduction of modern computer equipment has taken the guesswork out of the most complex patterns. 28th June 1988

The invoice department of Cashs of Coventry 4th March 1985

Bill Gates C. E. O. of Microsoft seen here at "Inside Track 95"event at the N. E
Bill Gates C.E.O. of Microsoft seen here at " Inside Track 95" event at the N.E.C. to promote the Windows 95 operating system. Friday 17th March 1995

Daily Mirror Newsroom, Editorial Floor, Holborn, London, Circa 1990

Silicon Valley, Santa Clara, California, USA, August 1978. Blue prints of Microchip

Schoolgirls are logging into a career in computers thanks to a course organised by Coventry Polytechnic. They learned how hi-tech equipment has transformed many industries

Doctor Penelope Leach Circa December 1991

Children using computers. Linda Muse, 16, at Longbenton High School, in Newcastle, is one of 130 pupils taking the computer course at the school in 1981

Children using computers. Carol Bullock, Debbie Armstrong and Paula Brocks, all aged 15 in 1984, taking an IT lesson at Heworth Grange Comprehensive School, Felling

Children using computers. Pupils at Gosforth Central Middle School so impressed organisers at an exhibition that they donated a computer to the school, in 1983

Children using computers. The mother of one of the pupils at Benfield Road School, Newcastle, in 1980 offered half the cost of a computer if the school raised the rest

Children using computers. Computer crazy schoolboys Andy Stoneman, Luke Youll, John Shaw, David Graham and Steven Iveson, of Slatyford Comprehensive School, 1981

Children using computers. Schoolchildren at the computer at Combo First School near Morpeth in 1983, are left to right: Michael Aynsley, Becky Rostron, Tom Anderson, Tracey Telfer, Eleanor Aynsley

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"From Babbage's Engine to the Promotional Photographs: A Journey through the Evolution of Computers" Step back in time to witness the birth of computing with Babbage's Engine, a groundbreaking invention that laid the foundation for modern computers. The Central Computer at Harwell marked a significant milestone in history, showcasing how technology was revolutionizing industries and paving the way for future advancements. Fast forward to 1927 when Babbage's visionary ideas were brought to life with the Computer Envisaged, giving us a glimpse into what would become an integral part of our lives. NASA's presence in Houston, Texas became synonymous with cutting-edge computer technology as they harnessed its power to explore space and push boundaries beyond imagination. Even our furry friends couldn't resist getting their paws on computers. Meet DOG, a basset hound who seems right at home next to a laptop – proving that they have truly become part of everyday life. The swinging 1960s witnessed another leap forward in computer technology as NASA continued its pioneering work from Houston, Texas – solidifying America's position as leaders in innovation. As Wall Street boomed during the 1980s, computers played an essential role in transforming trading at New York Stock Exchange – C016 / 2381 capturing this era where digitalization took over financial markets. Remember those iconic blue diskettes? They were once indispensable tools for storing data before USB drives came along - illustrating just how far we've come since then. In today's world, it is hard to imagine life without laptops or smartphones; they have become extensions of ourselves - like this young man sitting on steps engrossed by his laptop screen. Finally, let us not forget IBM 1410’s promotional photograph which captured both elegance and sophistication while highlighting how these machines shaped businesses worldwide.