ADA Lovelace: The Computer Wizard of Victorian England

by Lucy Lethbridge

Daughter of the poet Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace was a child prodigy. Brilliant at maths, she read numbers like most people read words. In 1834 she came to the attention of scientist Charles Babbage, who... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904095763
• ISBN13: 9781904095767
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Short Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The PC princess - makes a great gift

This is actually a childrens book but represents the sort of style a modern book could have. A short digest about something you never knew before.Would you believe that an eccentric English girl could have been drilled in maths enough to enjoy it? That she could work for hours on making a flying machine when such things were unheard of? That she could understand the abstruse principles of a mechanincal calculating machine, enough to translate an Italian work about it working hard like a robot?She had beauty, brains and breeding, and was an aristocrat. There was only one and only Ada. A true heroine. Where did they make them?Carefully packaged in a neat small volume taking 15-20 minutes to eat up in one gripping and moving read.