nicollemakesthings: I revisited my Ada Lovelace piece this week: Ada, Countess of Lovelace was born

nicollemakesthings:

I revisited my Ada Lovelace piece this week:

Ada, Countess of Lovelace was born into a privileged, noble family in 1815. Like many women born into her class, she was learned in the “ladylike” pursuits of dancing, manners and playing the harp. However, unusually, her mother insisted upon an education that focused on mathematics and science. She grew into a social, vibrant, intelligent and inquisitive woman and enjoyed talking about scientific study and worked on her own projects. One of her friendships was with the English polymath Charles Babbage, who himself was working on building an analytical machine. In her notes, she wrote on how this machine could process Bernoulli numbers - thought by many to have been the first computer program. (Ada also wrote on how this machine could be taught to create music!)