"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform."

分析引擎算不上是完全原创的东西。它可以做任何我们命令它去执行的事情。

"The thinking machine"

In 1833 Lady Byron wrote to a friend, the Brighton physician Dr. William King, recounting how Ada was enjoying the London season and the company of "Scientific people". On June 21 she sent from an account of Charles Babbage's demonstration of a small model of his Difference Engine, describing it as "the thinking machine". She admitted that she had only a very faint idea of how it worked.

“思想引擎”

拜伦小姐在1833年写给她朋友布莱顿的威廉·金医生的信中提到阿达是多么的适应的伦敦的天气和那些“科学家们”的陪伴。在6月21日，她在信中描述了查尔斯·巴贝奇演示了他的差分机小模型。她称它为“思想机器”。她承认只能模糊的理解一些引擎的工作原理。

Trial portion of Babbage's Difference Engine No 1, 1832

Charles Babbage's earliest conception of his calculations engine was that it would be digital. Working with the engineer Joseph Clement. He experimented with ingenious designs for mechanical components of this complex machine. Early sketches and the first experimental models are designed to ensure that number wheels could only come to rest in one of ten fixed positions. Small mechanical deviations were corrected automatically, while larger ones halted the Engine.

巴贝奇的差分机试验模型1号，1832年

查尔斯·巴贝奇对于分析机最早的念头是：它应该是数字化的。通过跟工程师约瑟夫·克莱门特的合作，他完成了针对这个复杂的机器的机械组件的独创性的设计的最初试验。早期的手稿和最初的试验模型都是设计来保证十个固定的位置可以安置上多个齿轮。机械零件上的细微差异会被自动的修正，但是大的差异会让引擎停止。