Sketch of the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage, Esq.

START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 75107
By L. F. MENABREA,
of Turin ,
OFFICER OF THE MILITARY ENGINEERS.
WITH NOTES BY THE TRANSLATOR.
LONDON: PRINTED BY RICHARD AND JOHN E. TAYLOR, RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET. 1843.
Sketch of the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage Esq. By L. F. MENABREA, Officer of the Military Engineers .
For information on Mr. Babbage’s “ Difference Engine,” which is but slightly alluded to by M. Menabrea, we refer the reader to the following sources:—
1. Letter to Sir Humphry Davy, Bart., P.R.S., on the Application of Machinery to Calculate and Print Mathematical Tables. By Charles Babbage, Esq., F.R.S. London, July 1822. Re-printed, with a Report of the Council of the Royal Society, by order of the House of Commons, May 1823.
2. On the Application of Machinery to the Calculation of Astronomical and Mathematical Tables. By Charles Babbage, Esq.—Memoirs of the Astronomical Society, vol. I. part 2. London, 1822.
3. Address to the Astronomical Society by Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Esq., F.R.S., President, on presenting the first Gold Medal of the Society to Charles Babbage, Esq., for the invention of the Calculating Engine.—Memoirs of the Astronomical Society. London, 1822.
4. On the Determination of the General Term of a New Class of Infinite Series. By Charles Babbage, Esq.—Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.