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Author Castaldo, Nancy F. (Nancy Fusco), 1962- author.

Title Ada Lovelace / by Nancy F. Castaldo ; illustrated by Charlotte Ager.

Edition First American edition.
Publication Info. New York, NY : DK Publishing, 2019.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1985861~S1
Location Call No. Status
 95th Street Juvenile Biography  J BIO LOVELACE    AVAILABLE
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Description 128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), genealogical table ; 20 cm.
Series DK life stories.
Note Includes index.
Contents Watching rainbows in the sky -- Celebrity daughter -- Science not art -- Flyology -- Presented at court -- Meeting Charles Babbage -- Like weaving flowers -- The Countess of Lovelace -- The analytical engine -- The enchantress -- The great exhibition -- A legacy of poetical science.
Summary "In 1833, Ada Lovelace met mathematician Charles Babbage, inventor of calculating machines. She went on to devise a way of inputting data into Babbage's Analytical Machine, and in doing so became the first ever computer programmer. ...Learn all about Ada Lovelace's fascinating life, including her famous father (celebrated poet Lord Byron), her talent for languages and mathematics, and her predictions for how computers could change our lives."--Amazon.com
Subject Lovelace, Ada King, Countess of, 1815-1852 -- Juvenile literature.
Women mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women mathematicians -- Juvenile literature.
Mathematicians -- Juvenile literature.
Women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Genre Biographies.
Added Author Ager, Charlotte, illustrator.
ISBN 9780241386224 (hbk.)
0241386225 (hbk.)
9781465485410
1465485414
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