Claim · 1950-10 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Turing’s ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’ (1950) names a memoir by Lady Lovelace as its most detailed information about Babbage’s Analytical Engine.

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What it connects

Computing Machinery and Intelligence → cites → Notes by the translator to L. F. Menabrea’s Sketch of the Analytical Engine

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Claim and evidence

Computing Machinery and Intelligencecites ↓Notes by the translator to L. F. Menabrea’s Sketch of the Analytical Engine

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 1950-10 · publication Records dated 1950 →

Scope and limitsA naming records that the later text names the earlier; it is not agreement, influence or lineage beyond what the passage states. Turing’s quotation is taken from Hartree (1949).

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

Computing Machinery and Intelligence (offprint, AMT/B/19)

Mind · 1950-10

Archived copy, captured 2026-10-30: Computing Machinery and Intelligence (offprint, AMT/B/19)

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Source excerpt

“Our most detailed information of Babbage's Analytical Engine comes from a memoir by Lady Lovelace.”

Location in source Section 6 (6), printed p. 450

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

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Source details and check notes

Authors: A. M. Turing
Version: Original Mind offprint, scanned by the archive; printed pp. 448–449 read on the page images for this collection (scans 16–17). Offprint held by the Turing Digital Archive, King’s College, Cambridge.
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Accessed: 2026-10-06
Language: English (en)
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Attribution: A. M. Turing, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", Mind 59 (236), October 1950; offprint in the Turing Digital Archive, AMT/B/19.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, antecedent texts (research/prehistory). Read on the page image for the candidate pack; it could not be matched mechanically. Scan without a text layer; quotations read from the page images (pdftoppm at 130 dpi) on 2026-11-02. ‘Lady Lovelace’ is italic. No human editorial review.

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Relation. An explicit reference to a work. Citation alone is neither agreement nor causal influence.

Date. Issue month of Mind, vol. LIX, no. 236, as catalogued for the offprint.

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