Ada Lovelace Bust

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Ada Lovelace Lord Byron was like an early 1800s guy that got things done He wrote poetry and helped birth a renaissance in the field. Then he went on a 2 year tour of the world, and continued to travel throughout the world in his lifetime. He went off to fight in the Greek War where he took a portion oz the men into their lives and died Lord Byron married and fathered plenty of children, but only who was legitimate, Lady Byron. He passed away eight years later, now remembered as the epitome of a drunk and estranged father who died in the Greek Wars for independence. She became the next Lady Byron. To make sure there were no concerns that she had inherited the issues that ailed her father, she studied to be a mathematician in school - as had her mother for similar reasons. Her motherHer parents some of the bet tutors that could be found in the world. She had many admirers, was active in the abolitionist movement, sought reforms in prisons, and was involved in society many more causes. After Lord Byron left the family, Lady Byron was a concerned that the evil moo swings might manifest into the young girl. She didn’t want Ada to have much to do with poetry but home schooled her in maths and sciences. When Ada was married, her husband inherited was appointed as the Earl of Lovelace, which made Ada The Countess of Lovelace. She began to communicate with some, like David Brewster, who worked in Optics, Michael Faraday, who worked in electronics, and probably best known for her work with Charles Babbage, who worked in computers. She got a commission to translate a paper in 1842 about the Analytical Machine from an Italian engineer named Luigi Menabrea, who later became the prime minister of a united Italy in the era before wold War War I. Menabrea had come across the machine in Turin. Babbage had added the idea of punched cards so Menabrea had some ideas how to use those. Lovelace decided to translate the aper o English. That project increased in scope creep (and so even the first programmers had to deal with that). Lovelace wrote up a series of notes which included design changes to the devices themselves. These became known as a book called Sketch of the Analytical Engine, of which 6 remain. One of the notes step through the math and how the machine would process it. Another note explained how to perform routine Bernoulli numbers, something still done in many apps. Here code was more elegant than prior attempts to use symbols to mimic instructions to a computer. Her code was also able to run properly once the machine was completed in later attempts performed to create museum pieces or emulators. Further, she actually thought about usability both with code and computers, something few did until software design emerged as its own field. She went on to write about other uses for computers, which included the idea for a general purpose computer, around 100 years before ENIAC went online. Lovelace passed in 1852 at 36 years old. \https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5467170