Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women
Ada Lovelace-  Mathematician
Born in the United Kingdom December 10th, 1815 and lived through November 27th. 1852
Once upon a time there was a girl named Ada, who loved machines!
She also loved the idea of flying
She studied birds to work out the perfect balance between wing size and body weight
She tested out materials and tried out several designs
She never managed to soar like a bird
But she created a beautiful book full of drawings called Flyology where she recorded all of her findings
One night Ada went to a ball. There, she met a grumpy old mathematician named Charles Babbage
Ada was a brilliant mathematician
Herself and the two soon became good friends
Charles invited Ada to see a machine he had invented
he called it the
difference engine
It could automatically add and subtract numbers
No one had ever done that before
Ada was hooked!
What if we built a machine that could make more complicated
calculations she said
Excited, Ada and Charles started working. The machine was huge and it required an enormous steam engine
Ada wanted to go further
What if this machine could play music and show letters as well as numbers?
She was describing a computer way before modern computers were invented
Ada wrote the first computer program in history!
