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 adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.

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Distinguished from the Difference Engine, Ada Lovelace describes how the Analytical Engine could produce logical outputs, not just the results of mathematical equations.

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Sketch of the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage Esq. By L. F. Menabrea, of Turin, Officer of the Military Engineers

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