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On a Proposed Analytical Machine

[Read February 23. Ordered for Publication March 9. Published April 28, 1909.]

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I Purpose to give in this paper a short account of the result of about six years work, undertaken by me with the object of designing machinery capable of performing calculations, however intricate or laborious, without the immediate guidance of the human intellect.

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  • R. Taylor’s “Scientific Memoirs,” 1843, vol. iii., p. 691.

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  • R. Taylor’s “Scientific Memoirs,” 1843, vol. iii., p. 694.

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  • R. Taylor’s “Scientific Memoirs,” 1843, vol. iii., p. 696.

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(Communicated by Professor A. W. Conway, M.A.)

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Ludgate, P.E. (1982). On a Proposed Analytical Machine. In: Randell, B. (eds) The Origins of Digital Computers. Texts and Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61812-3_5

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