Computational Machines - Letter from Babbage to Davy 1822

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There follows the letter introducing the invention of the difference engine to Humphry Davy and the Royal Society. Babbage's further development, the analytical engine, is well described in this translation by Ada Lovelace -

Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage [external link]

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