Keyword

analytical engine

Description: A proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by Charles Babbage, whose architecture anticipated programmable computation.

Primary topic: History of Computing Technologies (69%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q485257

OpenAlex ID: keywords/analytical-engine

Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1838

1982 · Allan G. Bromley · IEEE Annals of the History of Computing · 172

Babbage's Intelligence: Calculating Engines and the Factory System

1994 · Simon Schaffer · Critical Inquiry · 171

Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age

2004 · James Essinger · 125

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Charles Babbage, Pioneer of the Computer.

1986 · J. W. W., Anthony Hyman · Mathematics of Computation · 114

Calculating Instruments and Machines.

1951 · I. J. Good, D. R. Hartree · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (General) · 97

Lovelace & babbage and the creation of the 1843 'notes'

2003 · J. Fuegi, J. Francis · IEEE Annals of the History of Computing · 91

From Analytical Engine to Electronic Digital Computer: The Contributions of Ludgate, Torres, and Bush

1982 · Brian Randell · IEEE Annals of the History of Computing · 80

The Mathematical Work of Charles Babbage

1978 · J. M. Dubbey · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 66

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

2015 · L. F. Menabrea · 65

Calculating Instruments and Machines

1951 · Students Quarterly Journal · 64

Charles Babbage and His Calculating Engines.

1962 · J. W. W., Philip Morrison, et al. · Mathematics of Computation · 62

The Cogwheel Brain: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer

2001 · Doron Swade · 57

The Mathematical Work of Charles Babbage

1979 · W. A. Beyer, J. M. Dubbey · American Mathematical Monthly · 54

Ada, the enchantress of numbers : a selection from the letters of Lord Byron's daughter and her description of the first computer

1992 · Betty Alexandra Toole · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 44

Charles Babbage--Pioneer of the Computer.

1985 · I. D. Hill, Anthony Hyman · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (General) · 43

Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace, an analyst and metaphysician

1996 · B.A. Toole · IEEE Annals of the History of Computing · 41

Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1838

1998 · A.G. Bromley · IEEE Annals of the History of Computing · 39

On the Mathematical Powers of the Calculating Engine

1982 · Charles Babbage · Springer eBooks · 39

The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer

2002 · D.M. Hutton · Kybernetes · 38

The works of Charles Babbage

1989 · Choice Reviews Online · 38

Babbage's calculating engines : a collection of papers

1982 · Henry Prevost Babbage · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 36

Ideas That Created the Future

2021 · Lewis, Harry R. 1947- · The MIT Press eBooks · 34

Weaving as Binary Art and the Algebra of Patterns

2017 · Ellen Harlizius-Klück · TEXTILE · 33

Charles Babbage and his Calculating Engines: Selected Writings by Charles Babbage and Others.

1962 · A. D. Booth, Philip Morrison, et al. · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (General) · 31

The Stored-Program Universal Computer: Did Zuse Anticipate Turing and von Neumann?

2015 · B. Jack Copeland, Giovanni Sommaruga · Springer eBooks · 29

Works count: 571

Citation count: 3,053