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In 1843 Ada Lovelace collaborated with Babbage on an account of the Analytical Engine, adding notes to a description by Luigi Menabrea. Oxford's manuscript-based exhibit includes a diagram showing the steps of a Bernoulli-number calculation. The complete engine was not built, so the publication is evidence of a described computation, not a record of a completed engine running it.
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The year marks the explanatory publication, not the design of every part, the origin of all algorithms or an uncontested first-program milestone. Oxford explicitly cautions against a simple first-computer-programme label. The chapter on mechanical computing places the work beside calculators, card control and difference engines.
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A later reconstruction or modern simulation can test aspects of a design under specified conditions. It cannot retrospectively turn the published diagram into a nineteenth-century execution report. This entry makes no hardware performance claim.
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The 1843 account with Lovelace’s notes describes computations for Babbage’s unbuilt complete Analytical Engine.
Assessor finding: supported · historical · Article passage
- Oxford History of Science Museum, Imagining AI — Analytical Engine — Analytical Engine, 1843 collaboration and Bernoulli calculation diagram captions
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- Oxford History of Science Museum, Imagining AI — Analytical Engine — Analytical Engine, 1843 collaboration and Bernoulli calculation diagram captions
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