Ada Lovelace (In Our Time)
1843 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 19th century mathematician Ada Lovelace. Deep in the heart of the Pentagon is a network of computers. They control the US military, the most powerful army on the planet, but they are controlled by a programming language called Ada. It’s named after Ada Lovelace, the allegedly hard drinking 19th century mathematician and daughter of Lord Byron.
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Around 1843
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Crimean War (1853)
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- Victorian era (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)