Blackwell UK
Ada Lovelace
Computer Wizard of Victorian England
ISBN: 9781904095026
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Short Books Ltd
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Daughter of Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace was a child prodigy. Brilliant at maths, she read numbers like most people read words. She worked with the scientist Charles Babbage on his "Thinking Machine", a collaboration which would eventually lead to the invention of the computer. More
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Daughter of the poet Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace was a child prodigy. Brilliant at maths, she read numbers like most people read words. In 1834 she came to the attention of Charles Babbage, a scientist and techno-whizz who had just built an amazing new 'thinking machine'. Babbage took to Ada and asked her to work with him. Thus began a remarkable collaboration, which eventually bore fruit in the most important invention of the modern world - the computer.
