Ada, that's the name her parents gave her when she was born in december
1815 in London.
Her father, Lord Byron, was a great poet known and recognized but, he also loved foraging
roses and cabbages.
His mother could not bear interest for gardening which had become public
and humiliating.
So she ran away from her husband, with her daughter Ada, while the latter was only
a month.
Ada never saw him again.
Lady Byron's mother, Ada, was then committed headlong into her education
particularly in scientific education.
She wanted it to become a person rational and cultivated.
Not to give him the keys to change in a male environment.
No, she wanted to primarily inhibit the imagination that naturally flowed in her blood,
that the choice of her future husband be more rational that the choice she had made herself
by marrying Lord Byron.
Her education was intensive and has Ada never really abandoned her imagination.
Instead, she used it to better understand all the concepts she learned.
One day she discovered the semiautomatoc loom of Mr.
Jacquard.
She was fascinated.
Mr.
Jacquard revolutionized the textile industry.
His machine was 24 times faster than previous looms; he could
even create patterns that are yet so long and laborious to handmake
And the key, and that's what fascinated Ada, was the use of punch cards.
He had created a needle carpet connected to a thread and when a card reached,
only the needles that were in front of a hole and could go down and bring
thread to the fabric.
The fabric did not interest Ada, the punch card did.
She already imagined all the potential applications.
But she was still young.
When she was 17-18 years old, hes mother introduced her to the chic and bourgeois receptions to
get a husband.
She had come of age.
Actually, Ada was excited by meeting and exchanging with all the scientists,
she was eager to learn alongside them.
And it was during one of those receptions that shemet an old gentleman of 42 years.
Charles Babbage.
It was the prototype of the mad scientist of his time, an exuberant, eternal
enthusiastic and above all passionate.
He had invented the differential machine a kind of calculator specialized in
polynomial calculus, and fully mechanized.
Babbage was also fascinated by the Jacquard loom and he wanted to use
punch cards to create a new machine, the Analytical Engine, that would be called today
a computer.
No one could recognize it at the time but his machine was a brilliant invention.
Their common passion for punch cards and mathematics
built a strong friendship
By her 19, Ada met William Lovelace.
It was not true passion but he suited her and accepted her being more
intelligent than himself.
They married and had 3 children.
Now Ada Byron becomes Ada Lovelace.
Once her reproductive obligations completed, she did everything to get back to what she
really liked the math.
She took a tutor of Augustus Morgan, to further deepen her mathematics.
She will never know but Augustus was reluctant to teach her the basics of
math and science because these notions had to stay away from
women.
Even though everyone shared this opinion at the time, her mother and her husband succeed in convincing him
to make an exception.
Menabrea, an Italian mathematician, published an article on the analytical engine Charles
Babbage was trying to build.
Ada decided to translate it to English and to add additional notes, in order
disseminate the works of Babbage in England.
And if it could give her the opportunity to be accepted in the
intellectual circles, it would free her from the housewife's life
she didn't particularly appreciate.
Ada believed the notes she was adding would better explain how
really Baddage's analytical engine worked, it would accompany the reader.
A still well acquainted with mathematics reader.
Wrinting the manuscript was very exciting.
She anticipated and foresaw to the potential of this type of machine.
She imagined it would capable of recording and playing of
music for example.
Today it is estimated that her understanding of this machine exceeded
Babbage's one.
He became the technician of his machine, then she became thinking
thinking.
Babbage suggested her to assume the book.
She had never thought of.
The idea was bold, but she accepted, signing only by her initials, hoping
to be read and judged for her work before being known to be a woman.
That did not really work.
Her book was met with little interest.
Her idea wasn'y really thought to be credible even though the quality of
her mathematical word was recongnized.
The whole theory she developed would never be tested with the analytical
engine, which was too expensive and required the manufacture of 20,000 gears.
That was too early for the industry.
She then fell ill. She has passed
years agonizing. Medicine can not nothing to relieve, opium was his
only help to alleviate the suffering due to a uterine cancer. She died
she was only 36 years. At her request, she was buried next to her father. They
were separated in this world, they would be together in the next.
This is the future that will make her famous. One of his notes, the G note is one of the premises
of what is called a computer program. This makes her the first programmer
Of the history.