Ada Lovelace · every age
How did Ada Lovelace's life begin?
Wrote the first computer program at 27, a century early
- Dec 10, 1815
Born in London, the poet Lord Byron's only legitimate child
Byron had hoped for a boy.
Source: en.wikipedia.org - Jan 1816
Her mother left Byron, taking the five-week-old baby
Ada never saw her father again. Her mother pushed mathematics on her to counter any poetic streak.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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Portrait: Portrait: Alfred Edward Chalon (c. 1840), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons · source
