Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage, Esq. Responsibility . by L.F. Menabrea. Publisher [Taylor and Francis] Author . Menabrea, Luigi Federico. Date issued [1843] Place of publication . London] Physical description . pages 666-731 ; 22 cm. Notes . …

Luigi Federico Menabrea, who was reporting on a lecture Babbage gave in 1840. Ada Lovelace translated Menabrea’s paper from French into English and provided notes that were three times longer than the original. • The essential difference between the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine is that the Analytical Engine was designed to

MENABREA, Luigi Federico. Sketch of the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage ... with notes by the translator [Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace]. Offprint from Scientific Memoirs III (1843). London: Richard and John E. Taylor, 1843.

In 1842 Italian mathematician and politician Luigi Federico Menabrea published "Notions sur la machine analytique de M. Charles Babbage" in Bibliothèque universelle de Genève, nouvelle série 41 (1842) 352–76. This was the first published account of Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine and the first account of its logical design, including the first examples of computer programs …

Menabrea soon moved from the fortress of Bardo to become professor of mechanics and construction at both the Military Academy of the Kingdom of Sardinia and at the University of Turin. In August 1840 Charles Babbage gave a series of lectures on his Analytical Engine at the Academy of Sciences in Turin. The occasion was the second congress of ...