What if I told you that the world's "first computer programmer" was born over two hundred years ago?
And, what if that programmer was a she?
Lady Ada Lovelace was her name -- and her genius was nearly lost to history.
Daughter to the famous Romantic poet Lord Byron, Ada was almost relegated as a footnote in her father's biography.
In the nineteenth century, at the height of the industrial revolution, she was pushed into the male dominion of mathematics and science by her zealot mother.
Mentored by the "father of the computer," she emerged as a woman far ahead of her time in her ability to see what could potentially be.
Not your typical aristocratic lady, part of Ada's story holds a shadowy secret.
And, on her deathbed, her last wish speaks volumes.
Today on Biographics, we explore the "Enchantress of Number," Ada Lovelace.
Ada Lovelace was born Augusta Ada Byron in London on December 10,1815, to the philandering Romantic poet Lord Byron and strictly religious Annabella Milbanke.
