Ada Byron Lovelace and the thinking machine / by Laurie Wallmark ; illustrated by April Chu.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Berkeley : Creston Books, LLC., [2015]Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781939547200
- 1939547202
- Lovelace, Ada King, Countess of, 1815-1852 -- Biography
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871 -- Juvenile literature
- Women mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Women computer programmers -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Computers -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Biography | Lovelace A. W214 | Available | 33111008091593 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Ada Lovelace, the daughter of the famous romantic poet, Lord Byron, develops her creativity through science and math. When she meets Charles Babbage, the inventor of the first mechanical computer, Ada understands the machine better than anyone else and writes the world's first computer program in order to demonstrate its capabilities.
Includes bibliographical references.
Offers an illustrated telling of the story of Ada Byron Lovelace, from her early creative fascination with mathematics and science and her devastating bout with measles, to the ground-breaking algorithm she wrote for Charles Babbage's analytical engine.