What was the name of the journal that published Ada Lovelace's notes?
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Taylor's Scientific Memoirs
Answer
Taylor's Scientific Memoirs
Ada Lovelace’s notes were published in Taylor’s Scientific Memoirs.
The publication appeared in 1843 as part of the third volume of Scientific Memoirs, a series edited and published in London by Richard Taylor. Lovelace’s work was printed alongside her English translation of Luigi Menabrea’s article on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.
The piece was titled “Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage, Esq. with Notes by the Translator.” Lovelace signed it with the initials A.A.L., rather than her full name. The notes, labelled A through G, supplied much of the work’s lasting importance.
Readers sometimes mistake Scientific Memoirs for a conventional journal title or confuse it with the Edinburgh Review, which had published earlier writing about Babbage’s calculating machines. Taylor’s Scientific Memoirs is the accepted short form for the publication that carried Lovelace’s translation and notes in 1843.
Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Aug. 2026