In 1843, a 27-year-old woman wrote first-ever computer program. Mentored by Charles Babbage, her work still inspires modern technology nearly 200 years later

Ada Lovelace, a visionary ahead of her time, imagined programmable machines long before electronic computers came into being.

Over 100 years before the first computer, Ada Lovelace wrote the first program in 1842

Between 1842 and 1843, Lovelace wrote the first computer program for Babbage's Analytical Engine concept. Although never ...
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The History of Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, And The Birth of Computers

Created by Charles Babbage, the Analytical Engine was a general-purpose, completely program-controlled, mechanical digital computer with no human intervention. It was designed to be programmed using ...
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Ada Lovelace

Acclaimed as a mathematical genius, Ada Lovelace is said to have understood the potential of the first computer blueprints better than their inventor. A serendipitous friendship with the mathematician ...
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What a Difference the Difference Engine Made: From Charles Babbage’s Calculator Emerged Today’s Computer

As you might expect from its name, the "Difference Engine" is a strangely difficult object to describe. You might start by imagining the side of a large crib with uprights ringed by small metal wheels ...
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The difference engine : Charles Babbage and the quest to build the first computer / Doron Swade

A note on the value of money in the nineteenth century -- pt. 1. The difference engine -- ch. 1. The tables crisis -- ch. 2. A personal question -- ch. 3. Tragedy and decline -- ch. 4. Miracles and ...