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Countess Of Lovelace Research Paper

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August Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace was born in London, England on December 10, 1815. Her parents Romantic poet Lord Bryon and Anne Isabelle Milkbanke, had a short marriage and separated a month after Ada was born. She never met her father, because he left England forever four months after they separated. He then died in Greece in 1823. Ada’s life was struggle between emotion and reason, poetics and mathematics, and her health. Lady Bryon had Ada receive tutoring in mathematics and music so that she would not follow her father’s footsteps of being a poet. With the love of mathematics, in 1828 Ada produced a design for a flying machine. Ada and her mom moved to an elite London society, where the men were very smart and studied botany, geology, …show more content…

They meet in 1833, when she was 17 and they talked about mathematics, logic, and all subjects. Ada married William King in 1835. The King then inherited a noble title in 1838 so they became the Earl and Countess of Lovelace. They had three children, and both loved horses. Ada and her husband socialized with many of the interesting minds of the times, including scientist Michael Faraday and writer Charles Dickens. Charles wanted to make plans for a new calculating machine in 1834 called Analytical Engine, but his sponsors refused to support the second machine until the first on was done. In 1842 an Italian mathematician published a memoir in French on the Analytical Engine. Charles asked Ada to translate it and in a nine-month period in 1842-43 she worked on the article. Ada called herself “an Analyst (and Metaphysician.” She could understand the plans for the new device as well as articulating its promise. She put her own words into the article that described the new device and the article ended up being three times longer then it was originally. We now know it as the general-purpose computer. Her work was published in 1843, in an English science

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