Semen Korsakov: A Depiction of a New Research Method, Using Machines which Compare Ideas (1832/2009) [Russian]

The translation of the Korsakov’s brochure describing his machines “for the comparison of ideas”, a punched card-based apparatus for the automated comparison of data, invented apparently independently from Charles Babbage. The translation includes a supplementary article which contains the history of the invention and an endeavour to interpret theoretically the functioning of the five machines and an analysis of Korsakov’s innovative ideas.

Originally published in French as Aprecu d’un procèdè nouveau d’investigation an moyen de machenes à comparer les idèes, St. Petersburg, 1832
Translated by A. S. Ramov; with A. S. Mikhajlov
Title: Начертание нового способа исследования при помощи машин, сравнивающих идеи
Publisher: Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, 2009
ISBN 9785726211084
44 pages

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