The only known photographs of mathematician and computing pioneer Ada Lovelace have been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery just before they were expected to be sold to a private buyer.

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But Lovelace — properly Ada King, Countess of Lovelace after her marriage — drew on many different fields for her innovative work, including languages, music and needlecraft, ...

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AT a meeting of the Newcomen Society held at the Science Museum on December 13, Dr. L. H. D. Buxton read a paper on Charles Babbage and his difference engine, during which he gave a sketch of the ...