context1: The only other war <strong>machines</strong> are from the Games Workshop game Man O' War which is set in the same universe. These are huge weapons set on the decks of warships called the Hellfire Battlebarge and Great Leveller Battlebarge. The other two ships, the Thunder Roller and Hull Destroyer, rely on their <strong>engine</strong> power to ram enemy vessels.
context2: In 1843, the description was translated into English and extensively annotated by Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, who had become interested in the <strong>engine</strong> ten years earlier. In recognition of her additions to Menabrea's paper, which included a way to calculate Bernoulli numbers using the <strong>machine</strong>, she has been described as the first computer programmer. The modern computer programming language Ada is named in her honour.