The Scientific Archive



  • The Analytical Engine at http://www.fourmilab.to/babbage/contents.html. Read historical documents related to the Engine, including Ada Lovelace's translation and commentary of "Sketch of the Analytical Engine" by L.F. Menabrea.


The Clay Mathematics Institute:


  • Ada & the Analytical Engine by Elisabeth Freeman, Educom Review, Volume 31, Number 2, March/April 1996.


Professor Flood explains the lives and work of the ‘Mother and Father of Computing’: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and...


Some say that she is the mother of Computing, to others she’s a historical curiosity, Ursula Martin unpicks the life of Ada Lovelace: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and...