Product Description

The amazing story of the daughter of the famous 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'. Ada and Mr Babbage started working together – a perfect partnership which bore fruit in the most important invention of the modern world, THE COMPUTER!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #238507 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05-20
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

Philip Ardagh
"Remarkably informative and lots of fun, these excellent little books pack a big punch."

BfK No.140, SU, May 2003
"An extraordinarily readable and compact biography of the Victorian mathematical genius Ada Lovelace..."

Evening Standard, Gill Hornby
"Never has a gap in the market been wider. These are exactly what children traditionally love to read."

Customer Reviews

Ada Lovelace
I am a primary school teacher and I bought this book mainly for my own information as I like to learn how Victorian women helped to give me the life I lead today. I found it really interesting and read it in an afternoon.As I found it so interesting I asked one of my pupils to read it. She is 11 yrs and with excellent computer skills. This girl read it over 2 days(allowing time for homework)and said it was interesting in two ways. First of all how the computer was invented and how life was different then. My pupil did not believe anyone could have SUCH an interest in maths.
This book is a well deserved Blue Peter prize winner and child historians or number buffs MUST read it.