Title
To Dream Tomorrow, A Portrait of Ada Byron Lovelace
Catalog Number
102695251
Type
Moving image
Description
From the filmmakers' "Women of Power" film series. Label text: "The story of Ada Byron Lovelace and her contributions to computing, over a hundred years before the time usually thought to be the start of the Computer Age. Daugter of a mathematically gifted, social activist mother and the 'mad, bad and dangerous to know' poet Lord Byron, Ada was 17 when she began studying a prototype mechanical calculator designed by mathematician Charles Babbage. By the time she was 27, she had moved even beyond her famous contemporaries to describe universal computing much as we understand it today,"
Date
2003
Credits
Fuegi, John; Francis, Jo
Publisher
Flare Productions
Place of Publication
Denmark
Duration
00:53:00
Format
VHS
