Calculating Instruments and Machines
Douglas R. Hartree’s book Calculating Instruments and Machines (University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1949), read in an Internet Archive scan of the 1949 printing.
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- Calculating Instruments and Machines University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1949; Internet Archive scan · published 1949 · Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-11-03 (SHA-256 8ba5e640ebdf4f08e7fd5ba60174f73ab916f59ed9b2f928d5d9e09913e8a479) and again at admission on 2026-11-04 (same file). Internet Archive scan of the 1949 printing (title leaves: University of Illinois Press, Urbana; copyright 1949), with an OCR text layer; quotations matched against the text layer, printed p. 70 (PDF page 86). Same SHA-256 as the copy a second check by a model of another family read.
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- Notes by the translator to L. F. Menabrea’s Sketch of the Analytical EngineHartree’s Calculating Instruments and Machines (1949) names Lady Lovelace and quotes her statement on the Analytical Engine.1949 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Lovelace, Notes to Menabrea’s Sketch of the Analytical Engine (1843): document page →
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- A machine can only do what it is ordered to doHartree’s Calculating Instruments and Machines (1949) says that equipment such as electronic calculating machines cannot “think for itself”: the thinking is done beforehand by the designer and the operator, and all the machine can do is follow its instructions exactly. He quotes Lovelace’s statement on the Analytical Engine to the same effect.1949 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗A machine can only do what it is ordered to do: propositions page →
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