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Timeline of Ada Byron Lovelace
- 1815 Born: Augusta Ada Byron born the 10th of December in London to Lord Byron and Annabelle Milbank
- 1816 Lord and Lady Byron seperate January 16th
- 1824 April 19th Lord Byron Dies in Greece
- 1828 Ada designs a flying machine
- 1829 Ada contracts the measles and remains bedridden for several years
- 1833 Ada slowly recovers and is presented at court. This same year she meets Charles Babbage and his Difference Engine.
- for his Analytical engine.
- 1935 Ada marries William King on July 8th
- 1836 Ada’s birth of her first child a boy named Byron May 12
- 1837 Ada gives birth to a second child a girl named Anne Isabella (Annabella) September 22
- 1839 Ada’s third and last child is born July 2nd
- 1843 Ada’s famous Notes and translations are published
- 1852 Ada dies (november 17th)
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“ Ada, just like her fatherhad the ability to use imagination and metaphor to evaluate accurately a concept or an idea. She applied this talent to the description of a technological innovation that still has meaning today.” Betty Alexandra Toole author of Ada: Enchantress of Numbers |
Ada Bryon Lovelace was a remarkable woman who had a deep understanding of her own gifts in mathematical and creative thinking. She developed and pursued the education of her curiosity which led her to develop and write the first programs for Babbages’s Analytical Engine, the precursor to the modern computer. Her fame was is also enhanced by being poet Lord Bryon’s daughter. Her discoveries and contribution to technology, we know now, were very advanced for her time. She had developed a belief in herself and then discovered how much farther she could go collaborating with other great minds. It was also this concept that excited Ada about programming, the machine could only do what a person could program it to do, but it could also build on previous programs, the possibilities are endless.
| Believe your mothers when they say, “you are special”. The task of living up to your own expectations can seem overwhelming, exciting, challenging but insurmountable. Sometimes the key to your own sucess is to find other individuals who share your passions and collaborate. Kat pierre |
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This picture of Ada was painted by Latvian artist Inta Dobraja in 1986 and currently decorates the Department of Computer Science at Latvia University, Riga, Latvia
Another aspect of Ada’s life would have lent itself to the modern woman’s search for wisdom. She fulfilled many of her intellectual needs by hiring tutors and taking distance courses by corresponding back and forth with educators and scientific thinkers of her times. In today’s world, and largely to thank for her technological contributions, we can access almost any information we need by using our computers to go onto the internet.
Websites to Visit
The Ada Project
The Ada Project Welcome to The Ada Project a clearinghouse for information and resources related to women in computing
Ada: The Enchantress of Numbers
The Enchantress of Numbers Ada: The Enchantress of Numbers by Betty Alexandra Toole, Ed.D.
Ada Lovelace: Founder of Scientific Computing
Ada Lovelace: Founder of Scientific Computing
The Ada Picture Gallery
Pictures of Ada and Logos for the Ada computer language |
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