Lord Byron's daughter, Augusta Ada Byron, (Countess of Lovelace) was Charles Babbage's collaborator on the 'difference engine'. She wrote the first computer program to calculate Bernoulli numbers. The programming language ADA is named for her. She was a longtime collaborator after 1833.
Betty O'Toole has written a biography called Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers.
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Ada Lovelace is credited with developing an algorithm for the Analytical Engine to calculate a sequence of Bernoulli numbers. She and Mr Babbage corresponded extensively during the project.
Charles Babbage and it was first made for military use
London, but he never built it.
The first person to invent a computer is Charles Babbage, that is why he is being referred to as the father of computer.
Lots of people did not invent the computer. I'm one of them, but I'm extremely grateful to Charles Babbage and Lord Byron's daughter.
Charles Babbage did not invent the computer printer. He is most famous for inventing the "Babbage Difference engine" which was a mechanically operated calculator. Babbage started his work on the difference engine in 1822 and continued to improve on his ideas throughout his life eventually developing several computational machines. Babbage is also the inventor of the cow-catcher and the opthalmoscope.