Ada Byron Ada Byron was the daughter of a brief marriage between the Romantic poet Lord Byron and Anne Isabelle Milbanke, who separated from Byron just a month after Ada was born. Four months later, Byron left England forever. Ada never met her father (who died in Greece in 1823) and was raised by her mother, Lady Byron. Her life was one of struggle between emotion and reason, poetics and mathematics, ill health and bursts of energy. Lady Byron wished her daughter to be unlike her poetical father, and she saw to it that Ada received tutoring in mathematics and music, as disciplines to counter dangerous poetic tendencies. But Ada's complex legacy became apparent as early as 1828, when she produced the design for a flying machine. It was mathematics that gave her life its wings. Lady Byron and Ada moved in an elite London society, one in which gentlemen not members of the clergy or occupied with politics or the affairs of a division were quite likely to spend their time and fortunes pursuing botany, geology, or astronomy. In the early nineteenth century there were no "professional" scientists but the participation of noblewomen in intellectual pursuits was not widely encouraged. In 1835, Ada married William King, ten years her senior, and when King inherited a noble title in 1838, they became the Earl and Countess of Lovelace. Ada had three children. The family and its fortunes were very much directed by Lady Byron, whose domineering was rarely opposed by King. At the age of 17 Ada was introduced to Mary Somerville, a remarkable woman and whose texts were used at Cambridge. Though Mrs. Somerville encouraged Ada in her mathematical studies, she also attempted to put mathematics and technology into an appropriate human context. It was at a dinner party at Mrs. Somerville's that Ada heard in November 1834, Babbage's ideas for a new calculating engine, the Analytical Engine. He conjectured: what if a calculating engine could not only foresee but could act on that foresight. Ada was touched by his ideas. Hardly anyone else was. Babbage worked on plans for this new engine and reported on the developments at a seminar in Turin, Italy in the autumn of 1841. An Italian, Menabrea, wrote a summary of what Babbage described and published an article in French about the development. Ada, in 1843, married to the Earl of Lovelace and the mother of three children under the age of eight, translated Menabrea's article.
Byron was born on January 22, 1788 in London, England. He was the son of Captain John Byron and Catherine Gordon (Magill 312). His father had a daughter from a previous marriage, named Augusta. Byron was born with a clubbed right foot, which gave him a limp every time he walked for the rest of his life. His father was greedy and sought out money from all of his wives, so in 1789 Byron moved with his mother to Aberdeen. He grew up with a rough childhood, being abused by his mother often. However, he found help when he began reading the Bible and developed a love for history. This eventually led to his ideas for writing and his journeys across the globe (“Lord”).
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The 17th and 18th centuries saw the embryonic stage of women’s quest for intellectual and social parity with men. The evolution of women’s fight for equal opportunities was bogged down by a long history of stereotyping and condescension. Women were weaker physically, bore children and nurtured them. The economics and culture of Europe at this time was strongly influenced by religion and resulted in prejudice against women. The dominating religions of Europe in the 1600’s and 1700’s (Catholicism and Protestantism), citing the bible, reinforced women’s roles as mother’s, wives, and homemakers. Women were considered the weaker sex both physically and mentally. Men and most women assumed that because women gave birth and produced milk for their infants, God intended that their place was in the home. Men’s egos, as well, did not allow for women to compete with them. Males thought their place was to rule, fight wars, provide income, teach and be the head of his family. Women were not accepted in academics, politics, church leadership, business, or the military. Despite these prejudices, women saw an opportunity in the sciences. As a discipline based on observations and deductive reasoning it did not necessarily require a comprehensive academic background. Since most women were deprived of the more advanced education that men received, it was the perfect field for them to begin their pursuit of equality. As a result, a growing number of women actively participated in scientific research in chemistry, astronomy, biology, botany, medicine, and entomology.
In the Victorian era, in New York City, men and women roles within the society were as different as night and day. A man regardless of his extra curricular activities could still maintain a very prevalent place in society. A woman’s worth was not only based family name which distinguished her class and worth, but also her profession if that was applicable.
Another factor, affecting the perception of historical women in science, is the historians' focusing on the universities as the center of intellectual life. The universities of the 18th century did not all deserve this reputation (Schiebinger, 17). Many socially prominent women dominated the gatherings at salons. The salons, which were held in the homes of socially prominent people, were the true centers of...
Although her work was recognized during her time it was in 1953 when it gained wider recognition after being published in B.V. Bowden’s book named, Faster Than Thought: A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines. As computer science flourished in the 1950’s Ada began gaining fans. Ada has often times been called the first computer programmer. Ada was the first to write a machine algorithm for a computing machine which existed only on paper. This was a remarkable task because not only was she a women but she was a women in the 1840’s a time when women were extremely oppressed. Ada was a visionary she showed the understanding of numbers and realized they could be used to represent more than just quantities as put by her “might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations… Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of [mathematical] expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.”(Klein, 2015). She also realized that a machine that manipulated numbers might also be used to manipulate data represented by numbers. Not only was Ada the founder of
Later in her life, Augustus De Morgan, a brilliant mathematician becomes her main tutor. According to Rich Holmes’s book “Enchantress of abstraction: Richard Holmes re-examines the legacy of Ada Lovelace, mathematician and computer pioneer”
...ank and the English mathematician Charles Babbage developed the "analytical engine", precursor to the modern computer.
George Gordon Byron was born with a clubfoot. This often embarrassed him and caused many obstacles in his life. At age three, his father, Captain John Byron, died and his mother, Catherine Gordon, took him to Aberdeen Scotland. When he reached the age of ten he unexpectedly inherited the title of Lordship and estates from his Great Uncle. Things began to look up for Byron because he got to attend one of the best schools London could offer. He later fell in love with his distant cousin, Mary Chaworth at this school. She, however, did not feel the same. She is believed to be the one that sparked his writing on unobtainable love. Upon reaching the majority in 1809, Byron took his seat in the House of Lords. After school and college he married a very dull woman, Annabella Milbanke. The marriage was doomed from the start. When their child was born they both got a divorce. After the divorce he left England and was never to return again. He later spoke very bitterly about the marriage ("George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron."). He went on a tour of the Mediterranean with his lifelong friend J. C. Hobhouse. They embarked on a journey from Spain all the way to the near East of Europe. They had talked about going on this jou...
Born George Gordon, Lord Byron was born on January 22nd, 1788 in London. He was known as the most flamboyant and notorious of the romantics in his era. His father, Captain John (Mad Jack) Byron was absent for most of his son’s life and in turn caused a bitter and angry teenage George. Byron was born with a clubbed right foot, causing him to be self conscious throughout his life. As a boy, young George endured an absentee father, an abusive nurse, and an unstable mother. In the summer of 1789, Byron moved with his mother to Aberdeen. His mother was emotionally unstable and erratic. She raised him in an atmosphere filled with her temper, extreme insensitivity and excessive tenderness. She did not do much to help her son’s deformation, but more so mocked it. In 1798, his great-uncle the fifth Lord Byron passed on, allowing George to take the spot as the sixth Baron Byron of Rochdale. He took much pride in his coat of arms and his nobleman status. He fell deeply in love with his cousin, Margaret Parker in 1800, and when she died two years later, it inspired his first real dive into the poetry realm. He composed “On the Death of a Young Lady”. Throughout his life, his poetry would serve as a catharsis of extreme deep emotion. He then attended Harrow from 1801 to 1805, while attending he excelled in oratory and even played sports such as cricket. This is where he formed passionate and sexual relationships with other young men. Shortly after he fell in love with a distant cousin named Mary Chaworth of Annesley Hall, he had been so infatuated with her that he moved to be near her. His unrequited passion for her found expression in such poems as “Hills of Annesley”, “The Adieu”, “Stanzas to a Lady on Leaving England”, and ...
One of the greatest poets in the English language, ranking among the top individuals during the Romantic era, is William Blake. Blake was born in London on Nov. 28, 1757 into a working-class family. His father was James Blake, a hosier, and his mother Catherine Wright Armitage Blake. William Blake was one of six children. At an early age, Blake experienced visions. These visions continued through most of his childhood.
In 1815 he married Anna Isabella Mibanke, with whom he had a daughter, Augusta Dada, but they separated after a year. The libertine and the amoral character Lord Byron expressed to society eventually turn against him, especially after the rumors about his incestuous relationship with his half-sister Augusta, so he ended up leaving ...
However, in 1811, Byron’s mother died, forcing him to return to London. Only through various love affairs with many women, such as Lady Caroline Lamb, Lady Oxford, and even his half sister Augusta, was Byron able to escape his malaise. In 1815, Byron decided he no longer wanted to deal with the problems of amorous relationships, so he settled down and married Anne Isabella Millbanke. One year later, Anne left Byron due to his drinking problems, increasing debt, and the continuation of his love affairs. In 1816, Byron left England as his reputation was ruined by spreading rumors of...
Ada Lovelace was the daughter of famous poet at the time, Lord George Gordon Byron, and mother Anne Isabelle Milbanke, known as “the princess of parallelograms,” a mathematician. A few weeks after Ada Lovelace was born, her parents split. Her father left England and never returned. Women received inferior education that that of a man, but Isabelle Milbanke was more than able to give her daughter a superior education where she focused more on mathematics and science (Bellis). When Ada was 17, she was introduced to Mary Somerville, a Scottish astronomer and mathematician who’s party she heard Charles Babbage’s idea of the Analytic Engine, a new calculating engine (Toole). Charles Babbage, known as the father of computer invented the different calculators. Babbage became a mentor to Ada and helped her study advance math along with Augustus de Morgan, who was a professor at the University of London (Ada Lovelace Biography Mathematician, Computer Programmer (1815–1852)). In 1842, Charles Babbage presented in a seminar in Turin, his new developments on a new engine. Menabrea, an Italian, wrote a summary article of Babbage’s developments and published the article i...
Technology continued to prosper in the computer world into the nineteenth century. A major figure during this time is Charles Babbage, designed the idea of the Difference Engine in the year 1820. It was a calculating machine designed to tabulate the results of mathematical functions (Evans, 38). Babbage, however, never completed this invention because he came up with a newer creation in which he named the Analytical Engine. This computer was expected to solve “any mathematical problem” (Triumph, 2). It relied on the punch card input. The machine was never actually finished by Babbage, and today Herman Hollerith has been credited with the fabrication of the punch card tabulating machine.