The Inventing HerStory podcast
Who actually invented the first computer program, discovered the first complete dinosaur fossil, and so much more!? She did! The Inventing Herstory podcast explores the lives of influential women scientists and inventors (who you’ve maybe never heard about) and their world-changing inventions and discoveries (which you DEFINITELY know about)! Join us as we learn all about HerStory.
The Inventing HerStory podcast
Ada Lovelace - From Poetic to Programmatic
Credited with writing the first computer program in 1843 (over 100 years before the first modern computers were even invented!) Ada Lovelace was a brilliant mathematician in Victorian era England. Although of noble birth and highly educated, her life was filled with many challenges and Ada wasn't given proper recognition for her work until decades later. Follow us as we explore the life, history, and of course details of Ada's computer program in our first-ever episode of The Inventing Herstory Podcast.
**CORRECTION: Babbage's difference engine prototype was used for calculating insurance tables in 1859 NOT 1959.
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Sources:
In Byron's Wake: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron's Wife and Daughter: Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace by Miranda Seymour
Faster Than Thought by B.V. Bowden
BBC Documentary: Calculating Ada - The Countess of Computing - 2015 https://youtu.be/QgUVrzkQgds
Ada Lovelace - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace
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