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World Service,31 Oct 2002,25 mins

Inventors Imperfect - Ada Lovelace

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An insight into the often overlooked and misunderstood inventors of the modern age. Ada Lovelace daughter of Lord Byron, was the mathematical genius who at 17 visited the inventor of the computer Charles Babbage, and came up with some ideas of her own. Ada believed that the machine he was developing might at some point be able to think for itself.

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