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Ada Lovelace
(1815-1852)
Who Was Ada Lovelace?
The daughter of famed poet Lord Byron, Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace — better known as "Ada Lovelace" — showed her gift for mathematics at an early age. She translated an article on an invention by Charles Babbage, and added her own comments. Because she introduced many computer concepts, Lovelace is considered the first computer programmer. She died on November 27, 1852.
Early Years
Ada Lovelace, born as Augusta Ada Byron on December 10, 1815, was the only legitimate child of the famous poet Lord George Gordon Byron. Lord Byron's marriage to Lovelace's mother, Lady Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron, was not a happy one. Lady Byron separated from her husband only weeks after their daughter was born. A few months later, Lord Byron left England, and Lovelace never saw her father again. He died in Greece when Ada was 8 years old.
Lovelace had an unusual upbringing for an aristocratic girl in the mid-1800s. At her mother's insistence, tutors taught her mathematics and science. Such challenging subjects were not standard fare for women at the time, but her mother believed that engaging in rigorous studies would prevent Lovelace from developing her father's moody and unpredictable temperament. Lovelace was also forced to lie still for extended periods of time because her mother believed it would help her develop self-control.
From early on, Lovelace showed a talent for numbers and language. She received instruction from William Frend, a social reformer; William King, the family's doctor; and Mary Somerville, a Scottish astronomer and mathematician. Somerville was one of the first women to be admitted into the Royal Astronomical Society.
Babbage and the Analytical Engine
Around the age of 17, Ada met Charles Babbage, a mathematician and inventor. The pair became friends, and the much older Babbage served as a mentor to Lovelace. Through Babbage, Lovelace began studying advanced mathematics with U Augusta Ada Byron was the daughter of Baron and Lady Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron and Anne Isabella Noel, née Milbanke) and was born in London in 1815. Following the separation of her parents as a small child, Ada was raised by her mother and educated by tutors with a strong focus on mathematics and the sciences, as her mother hoped to deter her from following in the footsteps of her poetic father. Ada was fascinated by mechanical toys and scientific pursuits. At 17 she met the polymath Charles Babbage (1791-1871). Babbage showed Ada his first calculating engine, the difference engine, which aimed to automate the production of numerical tables, thereby reducing human error. The engine captured Ada’s imagination and she attended lectures regarding it, examined its plans, studied, and became part of the same social circle as Babbage. In 1835 she married William King, who was created Earl of Lovelace in 1838. Ada is best known for her notes and comments on Babbage’s plans for an analytical engine, a general-purpose programmable computing engine. In 1843 Ada translated a paper by General L F Menabrea describing Babbage’s new calculating engine and to this, she added notes which contain what is regarded as one of the earliest computer programmes. Ada saw the graphical potential of the analytical engine and that by using a punched card system, scientific information could be seen in a new light. She wrote that the ‘Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves’. Ada died from cancer in 1852 at the age of 37. Today Ada Lovelace Day is an annual event whose goal is to ‘... raise the profile of women in science, technology, engineering, and maths,’ and to ‘create new role models for girls and women’ in these fields. The Lovelace Room at the IET Savoy Place is named in her honour. There's also an opening that allows for viewing into the vault. Along with the grave, there are also wall plaques and a stone in the floor. The marble stone in the floor was sent by the King of Greece. Lord Byron had died in Greece - having given money to the Greeks for their war of independence from the Ottoman Turks. His money went to refit the Greek fleet. Byron had planned to be part of the attack on the Turkish-held fortress of Lepanto, but he fell ill and died of his illness. The Greeks saw him as a hero, and the marble slab in the floor of the church in Hucknall was given by the King of Greece. Though Ada never knew her father, she was December 10, 1815 - November 27, 1852 Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace, was one of the most picturesque characters in computer history. Augusta Ada Byron was born December 10, 1815 the daughter of the illustrious poet, Lord Byron. Five weeks after Ada was born Lady Byron asked for a separation from Lord Byron, and was awarded sole custody of Ada who she brought up to be a mathematician and scientist. Lady Byron was terrified that Ada might end up being a poet like her father. Despite Lady Byron's programming Ada did not sublimate her poetical inclinations. She hoped to be "an analyst and a metaphysician". In her 30's she wrote her mother, if you can't give me poetry, can't you give me "poetical science?" Her understanding of mathematics was laced with imagination, and described in metaphors. At the age of 17 Ada was introduced to Mary Somerville, a remarkable woman who translated LaPlace's works into English, and whose texts were used at Cambridge. Though Mrs. Somerville encouraged Ada in her mathematical studies, she also attempted to put mathematics and technology into an appropriate human context. It was at a dinner party at Mrs. Somerville's that Ada heard in November, 1834, Babbage's ideas for a new calculating engine, the Analytical Engine. He conjectured: what if a calculating engine could not only foresee but could act on that foresight. Ada was touched by the "universality of his ideas". Hardly anyone else was. Babbage worked on plans for this new engine and reported on the developments at a seminar in Turin, Italy in the autumn of 1841. An Italian, Menabrea, wrote a summary of what Babbage described and published an article in French about the development. Ada, in 1843, married to the Earl of Lovelace and the mother of three children under the age of eight, translated Menabrea's article. When she showed Babbage her translation he suggested that she add her own notes, which turned out to be th Archives Biographies: Ada Countess of Lovelace
Ada, Countess of Lovelace(1815-1852) was born Augusta Byron, daughter of the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron and his wife Anne Isabelle Milbanke. They were married in January of 1815 but separated in January 1816 when Ada (as she was nick-named by her father) was one month old. Four months later he left the country and never saw her again. Despite this, and his reputation as a womanizer (one woman with whom he had a publicly well-known affair called him "mad, bad and dangerous to know"), Ada requested to be buried next to her father in the family vault at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Hucknall, England.Babbage's Difference Engine
A poet of Byron's stature would normally have been buried in Poet's Corner at Westminster Abbey, and his remains were sent there, but the Abbey refused to bury him there for the reason of "questionable morality." (The Abbey finally put in a memorial stone to him in Poet's Corner in 1969; he died in 1824.) Following are more pictures of Lady Ada and Lord Byron's resting place at Hucknall, which seems quite proud to have them both there.
The light you see shining up out of the grave is for a wreath that was given at the time of his death that has been well preserved and proudly displayed.Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace
Contributed by Dr. Betty Toole