Ada Lovelace

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A woman in a Victorian gown studies patterned punch cards beside a Jacquard loom and a great brass calculating engine in a sunlit workshop. — Original artwork

The Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

Ada Lovelace

A woman sits at a desk at night beside a brass engine feeding punched cards, a candle and an open notebook before her. — Original artwork

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything.

Ada Lovelace