Science: Happy Birthday, Ada Lovelace!

Today 198 years agoAda Lovelace was born – an exceptionally bright woman who became the first ever computer programmer. She led a short but interesting and in the end rather tragic life, which I’d like to commemorate with this comic:

This page is actually NOT from my book Science: a Discovery in Comics, but from a small booklet I made about seven famous friendships – of which that between Ada and Charles Babbage was an important one.

But Ada Lovelace IS mentioned in my Science book, in the chap...