The Letters of Ada Lovelace
2. Thinking Machines
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Introduction: The Letters of Ada Lovelace: Mathematics and Poetry, working with the Babbage thinking machine, visionary
Duration: 01:28
Ada Lovelace: Use by Babbage offered, the Analytical Engine translation, working on things beyond number
Duration: 06:16
Ada Lovelace: Working with Babbage, her health, the 7 notes completed. Babbage's manager / friends for life
Duration: 04:12
Ada Lovelace: Babbage's Analytical Engine publication, electricity (Michael Faraday), Ada's fragile mental state
Duration: 06:16
Ada Lovelace: Andrew Cross, electricity and life, relationship with his son, horse racing and betting
Duration: 02:29
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Duration: 00:06The Letters of Ada Lovelace
1. The Poetry of Mathematics
First broadcast: 14th September 2015
Duration 27:38
Dramatisation of the correspondence of Ada Lovelace, the young Victorian who predicted our digital age.
2. Thinking Machines
First broadcast: 21st September 2015
Duration 28:45
Georgina Ferry presents a dramatisation of the correspondence of Ada Lovelace, the young Victorian who predicted our digital age
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