ADA LOVELACE

Family Information

• Father: Lord George Gordon Byron, Mother:Lady Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron
• Siblings: Clara Allegra Byron
• Nationility: English
• Married to William King (1835-1852)
• Children: Anne Blunt, Byron King-Noel, Ralph King-Milbanke
• Born December 10, 1815 in Piccadilly, England. Died November 27, 1852 in London.

CHILDHOOD

• Sickly child suffering headaches that affected visions since age 8
• 1829 (13 yrs) she caught the measles which paralyzed and confined to bed for a year.
• Tutors taught her mathematics and science
• Employment: Writer, computer scientist, and programmer.

EDUCATION

• Lady Byron endured her tuition in music and French 
• Attended the University of London

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• wrote the world's first machine algorithm for an early computing machine that existed only on paper.
• June 5, 1833 she met Charles Babbage
• Babbage invited her to see a small-scale version of the calculating machine called the difference engine. 
• Inventions: Analytical Engine, designed flying machine 
• Her works eventually became a separate work field of computer science in the 20th century

HISTORICAL RELEVANCE

• Mexican-American war ( 1846 - 1848)
• First Afghan war (1814)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin published (1852)

FAMOUS QUOTES

• "That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show." 
• "The more I study the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be."
• "One essential object is to chose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a min. the time necessary for completing the calculation." 

CONTRIBUTIONS

• The U.S. department of Defense named their programming language Ada in 1979

Obstacles
Over the obstacles she found in her path as a woman by using her aristocratic connections, her acquired wealth and a compliant husband, to create a spring board which propelled her into the company of Britain's scientific elite.

Works Cited

"Ada Lovelace." Famous Scientists. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 June 2015. .

"Ada Lovelace: Victorian Computing Visionary." Finding Ada RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 June 2015. .

Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 02 June 2015. .

Lewis, Jone Johnson. "Ada Lovelace." N.p., n.d. Web. 02 June 2015. .

"A to Z of Mathematicians (Notable Scientists) Hardcover – January, 2005." Amazon.com: A to Z of Mathematicians (Notable Scientists) (9780816053384): Tucker McElroy: Books. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 June 2015. .