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Publisher
Creston Books, LLC
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Mary novels (Cynthia Hand) volume 2
Language
English
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When two masterminds--Mary, the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, and Ada, the daughter of Lord Byron--are brought together by fate, they make a shocking--and magical--discovery that draws the attention of a mad scientist.
Author
Publisher
History Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The partnership of Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace was one that would change science forever. They were an unlikely pair - one the professor son of a banker, the other the only child of an acclaimed poet and a social-reforming mathematician - but perhaps that is why their work was so revolutionary. They were the pioneers of computer science, creating plans for what could have been the first computer. They each saw things the other did not: it may...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Even by 1800s standards, Ada Byron Lovelace had an unusual upbringing. Her strict mother worked hard at cultivating her own role as the long-suffering ex-wife of bad-boy poet Lord Byron while raising Ada in isolation. Tutored by the brightest minds, Ada developed a hunger for mental puzzles, mathematical conundrums, and scientific discovery that kept pace with the breathtaking advances of the industrial and social revolutions taking place in Europe....
Author
Series
Wollstonecraft Detective Agency volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"Imagines an alternate 1826 London, where Ada Lovelace (the world's first computer programmer) and Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) meet as girls and form a secret detective agency. Their first case involves a stolen heirloom, a false confession, and an array of fishy suspects"--
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Language
English
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The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous of the Romantic poets, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. Estranged from Ada's father, who was infamously "mad, bad, and dangerous to know," Ada's mathematician mother is determined to save her only child from her perilous Byron heritage. Banishing fairy tales and make-believe from the nursery, Ada's mother provides her daughter with a rigorous education...
Author
Series
The Inventors (Morgen) volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
George and Ada embark on a journey to the Galapagos to restore George's family name and save the world from Don Nadie, head of the nefarious Society of Nobodies.
Author
Series
Wollstonecraft Detective Agency volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Spotting a ghostly girl in the park who resembles the Wollstonecraft Detective Agency's new client, Lady Ada and Mary discover links between the girl and a case involving a hospital, a missing will, a hasty engagement, and a devious servant.
Author
Series
Wollstonecraft Detective Agency volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When a dinosaur fossil hunter is blackmailed by kidnappers who need her to fake a validation in return of her beloved pooch, Ada and Mary are given three days to find the offenders and save the scientist's reputation.
12) Ada Lovelace
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Series
Language
English
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Before she was a famous mathematician and the first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) was the daughter of well-known poet Lord Byron. Byron died when Ada was very young, and Ada's mother encouraged her interest in mathematics in an attempt to prevent Ada from turning into a melancholy poet like her father. Ada grew up and married a count, and as a countess, she was given access to some of England's greatest scientists and authors, including...
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Known as "The Enchantress of Numbers" by many inventors and mathematicians of the 19th century, Ada Lovelace is recognized today as history's first computer programmer. Her work was an inspiration to such famous minds as Charles Babbage and Alan Turing. This is her story"--
Author
Publisher
Lincoln Children's Books / The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Meet Ada Lovelace, the British mathematician and daughter of poet Lord Byron. New in the Little People, Big Dreams series, this inspiring and informative little biography follows the colourful life of Lord Byron's daughter, from her early love of logic, to her plans for the world's first computer program. With stylish and quirky illustrations and extra facts at the back, this empowering series celebrates the important life stories of wonderful women...
Author
Series
Wollstonecraft Detective Agency volume 4
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Ada and Mary take on the case of young Princess Alexandrina Victoria's missing diary.
Author
Series
Rebel girls (Chapter books) volume 2
Publisher
Timbuktu Labs
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Growing up in nineteenth century London, England, Ada is curious about absolutely everything. She is obsessed with machines and with creatures that fly. She even designs her own flying laboratory! According to her mother, Ada is a bit too wild, so she encourages Ada to study math. At first Ada thinks: Bleh! Who can get excited about a subject without pictures? But she soon falls in love with it. One day she encounters a mysterious machine, and from...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Behind every great man, there's a great woman; no other adage more aptly describes the relationship between Charles Babbage, the man credited with thinking up the concept of the programmable computer, and mathematician Ada Lovelace, whose contributions, according to Essinger, proved indispensable to Babbage's invention. The Analytical Engine was a series of cogwheels, gear-shafts, camshafts, and power transmission rods controlled by a punch-card system...
Author
Series
The Inventors (Morgen) volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Meet George, the third Lord of Devonshire and the unluckiest boy in London. Why is George so unlucky? First, he's an orphan. Second, unless he sells everything, he's about to lose his house. So when his family's last heirloom, a priceless map to the Star of Victory (a unique gem said to bring its owner success in any battle) is stolen by a nefarious group of criminals, George knows that there is no one less lucky--or more alone--than he is. That...
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