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A female genius : how Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, started the computer age

Essinger, James, 1957-2014
This new biography tells for the first time the story of the woman who, alongside Charles Babbage, invented the world's first computer. The daughter of Lord Byron, Ada was the visionary who recognised the true potential of Babbage's cog-wheel computer, The Analytical Engine. She demonstrated to t...
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