Ada Lovelace was the poet of Lord Byron. She was self-taught by Marre Somerville, a well-known reseacher and scientific author, who introduced her to Charles Bannage in June 1833. Babbage was an English mathematician, who first had the idea for a programmable computer. In 1842 and 1843, Ada translated the work of an Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea, on Babbage's Analytical engine. Though mechanial, this machine was an imortant step in the history of computers; It was the design of a mechanical general-purpose computer. Babbage worked on it for many years until his death in 1871. However, because of financial, political, and legal issues, the engine was never built. The design of the machine was very modern; It anticipated the first completed general-purpose computers by about 100 years. When Ada translated the article, She addde a set of notes which specified in complete detail a method for calculating cartain numbers with the analytical Enhine, which have since been recognized by histprians as the world's first computer program. She also saw possibilities in it that babbage: she hadn't realized that the
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