In 1847, at the age of just twenty-seven, Ada Lovelace became the world’s first computer programmer—more than a century before the first computer was even built. This almost sounds like a myth, or the ...

From 1832, when she was 17, Ada’s remarkable mathematical abilities began to emerge, and her interest in mathematics dominated her life even after her marriage in 1835 to William King, 8th Baron King, ...

Because it's the only machine of its era left on the planet. "Of the handful of computers operating before 1950 it's the only ...

Think the 1800s were primitive? Discover 18 technologies from the Victorian era that were decades ahead of their time.