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#LordByron's daughter
Her mother #AnneMilbanke insisted Ada have an education rooted in #science and #mathematics
That led her on a lifepath where she wound up in cahoots with #CharlesBabbage, geeking out with him over the potential for his invention, the #AnalyticalEngine, a mechanical #computer
And this is how Ada because the world's first computer #programmer
And in her writing is found the world's first practical prediction of
And rejection of
3/x
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Today we remember #AdaLovelace Day, famed for her work on #CharlesBabbage's proposed mechanical computer, the #AnalyticalEngine.
In 1843, Lovelace published what would now be recognized as a #computerprogram to generate Bernoulli numbers and was the first to see the creative potential of Babbage's machine.
As for the day honoring Lovelace, its goal is to increase the profile of women in STEM and encourage more girls into #STEM careers.
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> One notable flash of apprehension about the atmospheric consequences of employing steam power in factories can be found in the first chapter of #CharlesBabbage’s classic treatise On the #EconomyOfMachinery and Manufactures. Babbage is credited with being the father of the modern computer; his book is considered the first to introduce ‘the factory into the realm of economic analysis’
#AndreasMalm #FossilCapitalhttps://archive.org/details/oneconomyofmachi00babbrich
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4238
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Browsing the newly published details of Charles Darwin's library more. Impressed to see novels in there - that's relatively unusual for a private library of this era. Many Dickens, many Gaskell. He also had works by Babbage, Mary Somerville and my g..uncle-in-law Charles Maclaren. http://darwin-online.org.uk/Complete_Library_of_Charles_Darwin.html #HistoryOfScience #BookHistory #Books #Bookstodon #Libraries #Reading #Darwin #CharlesDarwin #Science #Novels #Babbage #Dickens #CharlesBabbage #CharlesDickens #ElizabethGaskell #Gaskell
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“The infernal organ”: #CharlesBabbage and street nuisances https://perneward.wordpress.com/2023/07/25/the-infernal-organ-charles-babbage-and-street-nuisances/ #Noise #Music #Soundscape #Sounds #UrbanLife #Towns #19thCentury #NineteenthCentury #History #ComputingHistory #ComputerScience #StreetNuisances #StreetMusicians #Musicians #Organs #accordion #squeezebox #Bagpipes #Religion #Psalms #London #HurdyGurdy #BrassBands