Ada, Countess Lovelace Print, Enchantress of Numbers, Women in STEM, History of Computer Science

Name: Ada, Countess Lovelace Print, Enchantress of Numbers, Women in STEM, History of Computer Science
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This is a lino block print of Countess, Lady Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), who published the first computer program. She worked together with Charles Babbage, the inventor of the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine (the first - mechanical! - computers), correcting his notes on how to calculate Bernoulli Numbers with the Analytical Engine. More importantly, she (a great communicator, daughter of mad, bad and dangerous to know poet Lord Byron) was able to understand and explain the workings of the analytical engine and the potential of computing machines. Her comments seem visionary to the modern reader. Babbage called her the Enchantress of Numbers.

The print is in blue and bronze water-based block printing ink on white coloured Japanese kozo paper 11 inches x 14 inches (27.9 cm x 35.6 cm).

The print shows Lady Ada, based on engravings made during her lifetime, before gears of the Charles Babbage Analytical Engine, based on one of his blueprints. Depicted around the gears are equations relating how to calculate Bernoulli Numbers. This is not only because Ada published how to do this MECHANICALLY, but because she foresaw that machines would one day be able to work with SYMBOLS (like those used, for instance) and not just numbers!

(carving three equations is a new level of insanity for me)

The final image show Ada Lovelace displayed with my other women in science portraits during the 'Go Ahead and Do It' show - about women in science - at Art.Science.Gallery in Austin, TX in 2014. The frame is not included in this listing, but you can find all of these portraits and more here!

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