Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace
, published A Sketch of the Analytical Engine, a translation from Luigi Menabrea
's work on Charles Babbage
's Analytical Engine. Her annotations tripled the length of the original.
Byron, Augusta Ada. Ada, The Enchantress of Numbers. Editor Toole, Betty A., Strawberry Press, 1992.
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Baum, Joan. The Calculating Passion of Ada Byron. Archon Books, 1986.
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Augusta Ada Byron
Babbage
's Analytical Engine was a forerunner of the modern computer (which was not built until the late twentieth century, although Babbage drafted more than thirty volumes of plans and designs for it during the...
