Culture 8
Exercise
5
Listen again and answer the questions.
Solution
- Ada Lovelace was born in 1815.
- Ada's mother wanted her to study science and maths because she believed it would help Ada avoid the mental illness her father experienced.
- Charles Babbage was a famous engineer.
- The Analytical Engine was a machine designed by Charles Babbage for doing complex mathematical calculations.
- Ada helped Babbage with his invention by creating algorithms for the Analytical Engine, which are considered by many as the world's first computer programs.
- Ada's work was rediscovered by Alan Turing, a famous 20th-century scientist, and other early computer scientists.