Luigi Menabrea's account of Charles Babbage's 1840 lectures on the Analytical Engine, first published in French in October 1842, translated into English by Ada Lovelace and published with her own explanatory notes, roughly three times the length of the original article, in Richard Taylor's Scientific Memoirs, Selected from the Transactions of Foreign Academies of Science and Learned Societies, and from Foreign Journals, volume 3, in October 1843.
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AuthorLuigi Federico Menabrea, translated and annotated by Ada Lovelace
PublisherScientific Memoirs, Selected from the Transactions of Foreign Academies of Science and Learned Societies, and from Foreign Journals
Publication Year1843
Source TypeJournal article
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