Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Taylor, Richard (1843), Sketch of the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage Esq. By L. F. Menabrea, of Turin, Officer of the Military Engineers, Scientific Memoirs, Selections from The Transactions of Foreign Academies and Learned Societies and from Foreign Journals, Article XXIX, Vol III , London, Retrieved on 2009-11-30
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01 JAN 2010
How the Analytical Engine Goes Beyond Mathematics
Again, it [the Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine . . . Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adapt... 1 
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notesDistinguished from the Difference Engine, Ada Lovelace describes how the Analytical Engine could produce logical outputs, not just the results of mathematical equations.
01 JAN 2010
How the Analytical Engine Weaves Concepts Like a Loom
The distinctive characteristic of the Analytical Engine, and that which has rendered it possible to endow mechanism with such extensive faculties as bid fair to make this engine the executive right-hand of abstract algebra, is the introduction into it of the principle which Jacquard devised for regulating, by means of punched cards, the most complicated patterns in the fabrication of brocaded stuffs. It is in this that the distinction between the two engines lies. Nothing of the sort exists i... 1 notes
notesLovelace's remarkable description of the Analytical Engine compares it to the Jacquard-loom, which was also programmable.
