![]() ![]() ![]() What if, instead, Lovelace and Babbage were successful in building the Analytical Engine and (naturally) used it to have thrilling adventures and fight crime? What history finally tells us is that Charles Babbage never did finish any of his calculating machines, with none built, and died a bitter man at the age of seventy-nine, while Ada Lovelace would never write another program, dying of cancer at the young age of thirty-six, shortly after her paper was published, and the first computers only built during the 1940s. It tells us that the mathematician Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace – or Ada Lovelace, as she is popularly known – wrote extensive annotations on Babbage’s concept for a programmable computer, today considered to be the world’s first computer program. ![]() History tells us that the polymath Charles Babbage had an idea for a steam-powered calculating machine, today considered the first computer design. ![]()
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