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    Home » Science Experiments for Kids » Ada Lovelace – Fact File

    Ada Lovelace – Fact File

    October 2, 2020 By Emma Vanstone Leave a Comment

    Today’s Women in STEM spotlight is the wonderful Ada Lovelace!! Ada was a mathematician who is thought to have written the world’s first computer program 100 years before the first computer was made! She also correctly predicted the future possibilities of computers including for creating music and graphics.

    Ada Lovelace Image taken from Wikipedia

    When you consider that Ada lived in a time when girls were not generally educated her achievements are even more incredible.

    Ada was born in England to Lord and Lady Byron. Her father was a poet and her mother a mathematician. Ada was brought up by her mother who encouraged her to study maths and science. Ada demonstrated a natural aptitude for the subjects.

    Ada married William King in 1835 and became the Countess of Lovelace three years later when William was made an Earl.

    Ada met a young mathematician and engineer named Charles Babbage when she was 17. Ada was fascinated by Babbage’s ideas, especially his plans for a machine to handle complex calculations named the analytical engine. Babbage was so impressed by Ada he asked her to translate an article about the analytical engine written by an Italian engineer.

    Ada translated the article and also added pages of her own notes. Ada’s work was published in 1843. The analytical engine was nothing like the computers of today. It was a large clunky machine programmed using punched cards!

    Unfortunately the analytical engine was never finished and Ada’s notes were forgotten about until they were found and republished in 1953.

    Ada very sadly died from cancer in 1852, aged just 36. She left behind an impressive legacy. Ada Lovelace Day is held on the second Tuesday of October each year and is an international celebration of the achievements of women in STEM.

    Ada Lovelace Fact File

    Activities related to Ada Lovelace

    Try some coding with scratch.

    Code and create with a Makey Makey. This giant operation game is a good example.

    The Bletchley Park website has some brilliant code based activities to try too!

    More Wonderful Women in STEM

    Learn about the work of Marie Curie.

    Find out about the inspirational Amelia Earhart.

    Marie M. Daly completed groundbreaking research about the heart and circulatory system.

    Rosalind Franklin helped decipher the double helix structure of DNA

    Fact file about the inspiration Ada Lovelace. Ada is often credited with writing the world's first computer program 100 years before the first computer was built!

    Last Updated on January 25, 2022 by Emma Vanstone

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