... 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 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 the 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 could build a machine
that could make more complicated calculations?" she said.
Excited, Ada nad Charles started working.
The machine was huge
and required an enormous steam engine.
Ada wanted to go further:
" What if this machine could play music
and show letters as well as numbers?"
