Daughter of the poet Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace was a child prodigy. Brilliant at maths, she read numbers like most people read words. In 1834 she came to the attention of Charles Babbage, a scientist and techno-whizz who had just built an amazing new 'thinking machine'. Babbage took to Ada and asked her to work with him. Thus began a remarkable collaboration, which eventually bore fruit in the most important invention of the modern world - the computer.
- ISBN10 0571208908
- ISBN13 9780571208906
- Publish Date 17 September 2001 (first published 31 August 2001)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 17 October 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Paperback
- Pages 64
- Language English