Ada Lovelace

The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast

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Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.6 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2018

⏱️ 99 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome to the History Tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely
0:05.9	coincidental.
0:09.0	And here's your 30-second summary!
0:12.0	A hundred years before the first computer was invented, Ada Lovelace wrote the first
0:17.7	computer program.
0:18.7	Now, how to cheat you that?
0:20.2	A magic wand?
0:21.2	A time machine?
0:22.2	Perhaps a kind of intelligence?
0:24.4	The world have never seen before.
0:26.4	It's a curious thing, this thinking machine.
0:29.0	Stay tuned!
0:30.0	Let's talk about Ada Lovelace.
0:33.6	But first let's drop her into history.
0:35.5	In 1815, the U.S. Library of Congress reopened after it had been burned down by the British.
0:42.0	The world's first commercial cheese factory opened in Switzerland.
0:45.7	Napoleon Bonaparte's run as Emperor of France ended for good after the Battle of Waterloo,
0:51.2	and he was sent off in exile again for good.
0:54.6	39 German states unified under the Act of Confederation.
0:58.2	Emma by Jane Austen was first published.
1:00.5	Elizabeth Katie Stanton entered this world.
1:03.6	And on December 10th, 1815, the first computer programmer Ada Lovelace was born long before
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