A set of 11 volumes which contains all the known works of Charles Babbage, who has been described as the "pioneer of the computer"
A set of 11 volumes which contains all the known works of Charles Babbage, who has been described as the "pioneer of the computer". His mathematical, scientific and engineering work is highly significant for its original approach to problem-solving and is reset for today's reader.
Volume
3. The Analytical Engine and Mechanical Notation SECTION B The
Analytical Engine I Statement addressed to the Duke of Wellington respecting
the calculating engine (1834) II Une lettre a M. Quetelet de M. Ch. Babbage
relativement a la machine a calculer (1835) III A letter to M. Quetelet from
Charles Babbage respecting the calculating machine, translation IV On the
mathematical powers of the calculating engine (1837) V Notions sur la machine
analytique de M. Charles Babbage, by L. F. Menabrea (1842) VI Addition to the
Memoir of M. Menabrea on the Analytical Engine (1843) VII Sketch of the
Analytical Engine, by A. A. Lovelace (1843) VIII Letter to the editor of
Cosmos, by L. F. Menabrea (1855) IX Letter to the editor of Cosmos, by L. F.
Menabrea, translation X Report of the committee . . . appointed to consider
the advisability and to estimate the expense of con[ 1]structing Mr Babbages
analytical machine, and of printing tables by its means, by C. W. Merrifield
(1879) XI On the mechanical arrangement of the Analytical Engine, by H. P.
Babbage (1889) SECTION C Analytical Notation I On a method of expressing by
signs the action of machinery (1826) II Laws of mechanical notation (1851)
III Note sur la machine Suedoise de MM. Scheutz pour calculer les tables
mathematiques par la methode des differences, et en imprimer les resultats
sur des planches stereotypes (1855) IV Note on the Swedish machine of Messrs
Scheutz tocalculate mathematical tables by the method of differences, and to
print the results thereof on stereotype plates, translation
Charles Babbage, Martin Campbell-Kelly
