Ada Lovelace
Subtitle: the computer wizard of Victorian England
By: Lucy Lethbridge.
Edition: [New ed.]
Series: Who was-- ?
Publisher: Short
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 81
ISBN-13: 9781904095767
Subjects: Lovelace, Ada King, -- Countess of, -- 1815-1852 -- Juvenile literature; Women mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Juvenile literature; Mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Juvenile literature; Computers and women -- History -- Juvenile literature
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography
Description: Daughter of the famous romantic poet Lord Byron, Adad Lovelace was a child prodigy. Brilliant at maths, she read numbers loke most people read words. In 1843 Ada came to the attention of Charles Babbage, a scientist and techno-whizz who had just built an amazing new "thinking machine." She and Mr. Babbage started working together--a perfect partnership which led to the most important invention of the modern world: the computer.
Notes: Previous ed.: 2001.