Ada Lovelace (The First Names Series)

Meet the woman who created computers! Before she helped pioneer the early computer, Ada Lovelace was just a little girl with her head in the clouds. When her father, a famous poet, died in disgrace, Ada's mother encouraged Ada's interest in mathematics to prevent her from following in her father's footsteps. But nothing could stifle Ada's imagination! She grew up to be a gifted mathematician and writer and went on to develop an analytical engine with Charles Babbage that today is seen as the earliest computer.

As the First Names title suggests, we will be getting to know these people on first name terms; discover who Ada actually is, not just what she has achieved. Ada, an incredible woman who was ahead of her time, the lesser known daughter of the famous poet Byron, she came up with computer programming over 100 years before the first computer!