Sketch of the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage Esq. By L. F. Menabrea, of Turin, Officer of the Military Engineers
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1843
- Publisher
- Scientific Memoirs, Selections from The Transactions of Foreign Academies and Learned Societies and from Foreign Journals
- Place
- London
- Volume / pages
- Article XXIX, Vol III
- Retrieved
- Nov 30, 2009
- ISBN
- 1113170131
- EAN
- 9781113170132
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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…
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…